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See also:ABBE DE See also:CLAUDE See also:HENRI DE FUZEE See also:VOISENON (1708—75)
, See also:French dramatist and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at the chateauof See also:Voisenon near See also:Melun, on the 3th of See also:July 1708
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At the See also:age of ten he addressed an See also:epistle in See also:verse to See also:Voltaire, who asked the boy to visit him
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From this introduction dated a friendship that lasted for fifty years
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Voisenon made his debut as a dramatist with L'Heureuse ressemblance in 1728, followed in 1739 by a three-See also:act See also:comedy L'Ecole du monde at the See also:Theatre frangais
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This was preceded by a verse See also:prologue, L'See also:Ombre de See also:Moliere, and a See also:month later Voisenon produced a See also:criticism on his own piece in Le Retour de l'ombre de Moliere
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A See also:duel in which he was the aggressor inspired him with remorse, and he entered the priesthood, becoming See also:vicar-See also:general to the See also:bishop of See also:Boulogne
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He received the See also:abbey of Jard, which made no demands on him
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He became closely attached to Madame du See also:Chatelet, the See also:mistress of Voltaire (q.v.), and was intimate with the See also:comte de See also:Caylus and Mademoiselle See also:Quinault Dufresne
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He made witty but by no means edifying contributions to the Etrennes de See also:Saint-See also:Jean, the Bads de Bois, &c
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In 1744 he produced the Mariages assortis and in 1746 his masterpiece, the Coquette fixee
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He lived on terms of the closest intimacy with See also:
Voisenon had, See also:strange to say, scruples all his See also:life about the incongruity between his way of living and his profession, but he continued to write indecent stories for private circulation, and wrote verses in See also:honour of Madame du See also:Barry, as he had done for Madame de See also:Pompadour
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He was elected to the See also:Academy in 1762
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On the disgrace of his See also:patron, the duc de See also:Choiseul, he lost his See also:pensions and honours, but soon recovered his position
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He was intimate with the See also:chancellor See also:Maupeou, and was suspected of See also:writing on his behalf in See also:defence of the abolition of the See also:parlement
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This and some other incidents brought him into general disgrace
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See also:Early in 1775 he retired to the See also:chateau de Voisenon, where he died on the 22nd of See also:November of the same See also:year
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His cEuvres completes were published by his executrix, Madame. de See also:Turpin, in 1781
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VOI'f URE, See also:VINCENT (1598-1648), French poet, was the son of a See also:rich See also:merchant of See also:Amiens
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He was introduced by a school-See also:fellow, the comte d'Avaux, to Gaston d'See also:
He had been early introduced to the Hotel de See also:Rambouillet, where he was the especial friend of Julie d'Angennes, who called him her " See also:dwarf See also: |
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