See also:

• ALEXIS
• ALEXIS, WILLIBALD

ALEXIS See also:

• ALEXIS PIRON (1689-1773)

PIRON (1689-1773)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French epigrammatist and dramatist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• DIJON

Dijon on the 9th of See also:

• JULY

July 1689 . His See also:

• FATHER

father, !rime See also:

• PIRON, ALEXIS (1689-1773)

Piron, was an See also:

• APOTHECARY (from the Lat. apothecarius, a keeper of an apotheca, Gr. aroth is , a store)

apothecary, who wrote See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse in the Burgundian See also:

• PATOIS

patois . See also:

• ALEXIS
• ALEXIS, WILLIBALD

Alexis began See also:

• LIFE

life as clerk and secretary to a banker, and then studied See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law . In 1719, when nearly See also:

• THIRTY

thirty years old, he went to seek his See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune at See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris . An See also:

• ACCIDENT
• ACCIDENT (from Lat. accidere, to happen)

accident brought him See also:

• MONEY

money and notoriety . The See also:

• JEALOUSY (adapted from Fr. jalousie, formed from jaloux, jealous, Low Lat. zelosus, Gr. j'i os, ardour, zeal, from the root seen in '&u', to boil, ferment; cf. " yeast ")

jealousy of the See also:

• REGULAR

regular actors produced an See also:

• EDICT (Lat. edictum, from e, out, and dicere, to say, speak)

edict restricting the See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

Theatre de la Foire, or licensed booths at See also:

• FAIR

fair times, to a single See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character on the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage . None of the See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary writers for this theatre would See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt a See also:

• MONOLOGUE (from Gr. µovos, alone, and X yos, speech)

monologue-See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama for the purpose, and Piron made a See also:

• GREAT

great success with a piece called Arlequin See also:

• DEUCALION

Deucalion, representing Deucalion immediately after the See also:

• DELUGE, THE (through the Fr. from Lat. diluvium, flood, diluere, to wash away)

Deluge, amusing himself with recreating in See also:

• SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession the different types of See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man . In 1728 he produced See also:

• LES

Les Fils ingrats (known later as L'Ecole See also:

• DES

des peres) at the Comedic Fran raise . He attempted tragedy in Callisthene (1730), Gustave See also:

• VASA, or NIKOLAISTAD

Vasa (1733) and Fernand Cones (1744), but none of these succeeded, and Piron returned to See also:

• COMEDY

comedy with La Metromanie (1738), in which the See also:

• HERO (Gr. open)
• HERO, THE YOUNGER

hero, Damis, suffers from the verse See also:

• MANIA

mania . His most intimate associates at this See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time were Mlle See also:

• QUINAULT, PHILIPPE (1635-1688)

Quinault, the actress, and her friend See also:

• MARIE

Marie Therese Quenaudon, known as Mlle de See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

Bar . This See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady was slightly older than Piron and not beautiful, but after twenty years' acquaintance he married her in 1741 . He died on the 21st of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1773, in his eighty-See also:

• FOURTH

fourth See also:

• YEAR

year .

He was elected in 1753 to the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, but his enemies raked up a certain See also:

• ODE (Gr. uiSri, from aei&ew, to sing)

Ode a Priape, dating from his See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early days, and induced See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis XV. to interpose his See also:

• VETO (Lat. for " I forbid ")

veto . Piron however was pensioned, and during the last See also:

• HALF

half-See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century of his life was never in any want . His best See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title to remembrance lies in his epigrams . The See also:

• BURLESQUE (Ital. burlesco, from burla, a joke, fun, playful trick)

burlesque See also:

• EPITAPH (Gr. it oa¢cos, sc. X/yos, from bri, upon, and ra¢os, a tomb)

epitaph on himself, in which he ridicules the Academy " Ci-git Piron, qui ne fut rien, Pas meme academicien " is well-known, while many others are as brilliant . See also:

• GRIMM, FRIEDRICH MELCHIOR, I
• GRIMM, JACOB LUDWIG CARL (1785-1863)
• GRIMM, WILHELM CARL (1786-1859)

Grimm called him a " See also:

• MACHINE
• MACHINE (through Fr. from Lat. form machina of Gr. µnxavil)

machine a saillies." Piron published his own theatrical See also:

• WORKS

works in 1758, and after his See also:

• DEATH

death his friend and See also:

• LITERARY

literary executor, Rigoley de Juvigny, published his U uvres completes . M . Bonhomme produced a See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical edition in 1859, completed by Poesies choisies et pieces inedites in 1879 .