See also:

• MICHEL
• MICHEL, CLAUDE
• MICHEL, FRANCISQUE XAVIER (1809-1887)

MICHEL See also:

• JEAN

JEAN See also:

• MICHEL JEAN SEDAINE (1719-1797)

SEDAINE (1719-1797)  , See also:

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

French dramatist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born 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 on the 4th of See also:

• JULY

July 1719 . His See also:

• FATHER

father, who was an architect, died when See also:

• SEDAINE, MICHEL JEAN (1719-1797)

Sedaine was quite See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young, leaving no See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune, and the boy began See also:

• LIFE

life as a See also:

• MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
• MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
• MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
• MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
• MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
• MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
• MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
• MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
• MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
• MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)

mason's labourer . He was at last taken as See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil by an architect whose kindness he eventually repaid by the help he was able to give to his benefactor's See also:

• GRANDSON (Ger. Grandsee)

grandson, the painter See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David . Meanwhile he had done his best to repair his deficiencies of See also:

• EDUCATION

education, and in 1750 he published a Recueil de pieces fugitives, which included fables, songs and pastorals . His especial See also:

• TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent was, however, for See also:

• LIGHT

light See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera . He produced Le Diable d quatre (1756), the See also:

• MUSIC

music being by several composers; Blaise le Savetier (1759), for the music of Danican See also:

• PHILIDOR, FRANCOIS ANDRE DANICAN (1726-1795)

Philidor; On ne s'avise jamais de tout (1761) and others with See also:

• PIERRE

Pierre See also:

• ALEXANDRE, NOEL (NATALIS ALEXANDER) (1639-1724)

Alexandre de Monsigny; Aucassin et Nicolette (1780), See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard Cceur de See also:

• LION
• LION (Lat, leo, leonis; Gr. Mew)

Lion (1784), and See also:

• AMPHITRYON

Amphitryon (1788) with See also:

• ANDRE, JOHN (1751-178o)

Andre See also:

• GRETRY

Gretry . Sedaine's vaudevilles and operettas attracted the See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention of See also:

• DIDEROT, DENIS (1713-1784)

Diderot, and two plays of his were accepted and performed at the See also:

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

Theatre See also:

• FRANCAIS, ANTOINE, COUNT (1756-1836)

Francais . The first and longest, the Philosophe sans le savoir, was acted in 1765; the second, a lively one-See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act piece, La Gageure imprevue in 1768 . These two at once took their See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place as stock pieces and are still ranked among the best French plays, each of its class . Except these two pieces little or nothing of his has kept the See also:

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

stage or the shelves, but Sedaine may be regarded as the See also:

• LITERARY

literary ancestor of See also:

• SCRIBE, AUGUSTIN EUGENE (1791-1860, French dramatist, was born in Paris on the 24th of December 1791. His father was a silk merchant, and he was well educated, being destined for the bar. But, having a real gift for the theatre, a gift which unfortunately

Scribe and See also:

• DUMAS, ALEXANDRE
• DUMAS, ALEXANDRE [" DUMAS FILS"] (1824-1895)
• DUMAS, GUILLAUME MATHIEU, COUNT (1753-1837)
• DUMAS, JEAN BAPTISTE ANDRE (1800-1884)

Dumas . He had the See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical knowledge of the theatre, which enabled him to carry out the ideas of Diderot and give him claims to be regarded as the real founder of the domestic See also:

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

drama in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France . Sedaine, who became a member of the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy (1786), and secretary for See also:

• ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture of the See also:

• FINE

fine arts See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division, died at Paris on the 17th of May 1797 .

He wrote two See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical dramas, See also:

• RAYMOND, HENRY JARVIS (1820-1869)

Raymond V. See also:

• COMTE, AUGUSTE [ISIDORE AUGUSTE MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER] (1798-1857)

comte de See also:

• TOULOUSE
• TOULOUSE, LOUIS ALEXANDRE DE BOURBON, COUNT OF (1678-1737)

Toulouse, and Maillard, ou Paris sauve . His cuvres (1826) contain a See also:

• NOTICE

notice of his life by See also:

• DUCIS, JEAN

Ducis .