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See also: born in Faris on the 4th of See also: December 1736, the son of a financier who See also: left him a large See also: fortune and the title of See also: marquis
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After taking See also: part in the Seven Years' War, See also: young Villette returned in 1763 to See also: Paris, where he made many enemies by his insufferable See also: manners
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But he succeeded in gaining the intimacy of Voltaire, who had known his See also: mother and who wished to make a poet of him
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The old philosopher even went so far as to See also: call his protege the French See also: Tibullus
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In 1777, on Voltaire's advice, Villette married Mademoiselle de Varicourt, but the See also: marriage was unhappy, and his wife was subsequently adopted by Voltaire's niece, Madame Denis
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During the Revolution Villette publicly burned his letters of See also: nobility, wrote revolutionary articles in the Chronique de Paris, and was elected deputy to the See also: Convention by the department of See also: Seine-et-See also: Oise
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He had the courage to censure the See also: September massacres and to See also: vote for the imprisonment only, and not for the See also: death, of See also: Louis XVI
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He died in Paris on the 7th of
See also: July 1793
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In 1784 he published his (Euvres, which are of little value, and in 1792 his articles in the Chronique de Paris appeared in See also: book See also: form under the title Lettres choisies sur See also: les principaux evenemento de la Revolution
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