Marmontel (1723-1799)
Subtitle: le philosophe qui chantait Cythère
By: Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret
Series: Biographies. Série XVIIIe siècle; Biographies
Publisher: L'Harmattan
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9782343135977
Subjects: French Authors; Biography
Description: Playwright ("the only future of the theater"), journalist (the Mercury), grammarian, storyteller and philosopher, Marmontel, emulator of his friend Voltaire, was an apostle of tolerance and freedom. His Belief provoked a scandal. The indignant Sorbonne that one could believe the useless fires condemned a work that was also praised by all enlightened Europe. It was his moral tales that earned him his greatest fame. Adulated like Voltaire, his Neuvaine of Kythera, the most beautiful erotic poem of the century, could not be published during his lifetime: censorship watched.--Fabula.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-269).
Table of contents: title: La seule expérance de notre théâtre --; title: Les coulisses de l'Opéra --; title: La Neuvaine de Cythère --; title: Bélisaire et la Sorbonne --; title: Un monument érigé à la religion du coeur --; title: Marmontel en révolution --; title: Le prince des conteurs. --; title: Le petit voyage --; title: Bibliographie.