Original sentence: , 1760 – April 25, 1828) was a French playwright and critic, best known today for his operatic librettos.Among his numerous plays are best remembered a well-regarded one-act comedy, Le Roman d'une heure (1803), and an amusing one-act opera, Les Rendez-vous bourgeois.François Benoît Hoffmann (July.He had the reputation of being an absolutely conscientious and incorruptible critic and thus exercised wide influence.He served there for a very short time, and, returning to Nancy, wrote some poems which brought him into notice at the little court of Luneville over which the Marquise de Boufflers then presided.His later operas, which were numerous, were produced at the Opera Comique.His opera Adrien (1792) was objected to by the government on political grounds, and Hoffmann, who refused to make the changes proposed to him, ran considerable risk under the revolutionary government.His severe criticism of Chateaubriand's Martyrs led the author to make some changes in a later edition.Hoffmann was born in Nancy, and studied law at the University of Strassburg.Hoffmann's wide reading qualified him to write on all sorts of subjects, and he turned, apparently with no difficulty, from reviewing books on medicine to violent attacks on the Jesuits.However, a slight hesitation in his speech precluded success at the bar, and he entered a military regiment on service in Corsica.In 1784 he went to Paris, and two years later produced the opera Phedre.In 1807 he was invited by Etienne to contribute to the Journal de l'Empire (afterwards the Journal des Débats)
Edited sentence: François Benoît Hoffmann (1760-1828) was a French playwright and critic, best known today for his operatic librettos