Antoine-Marin Lemierre
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Antoine-Marin Lemierre (12 January 1733Template:Snd4 July 1793) was a French dramatist and poet.
Life
Lemierre was born in Paris to a poor family but secured patronage from the collector-general of taxes, Dupin, eventually becoming his secretary. Lemierre achieved his initial theatrical success with Hypermnestre (1758); Titre (1761) and Idomne (1764) failed on account of the subjects. Artaxerce, modelled on Metastasio, and Guillaume Tell were produced in 1766; other successful tragedies were La Veuve de Malabar (1770) and Barnavelt (1784). He was admitted to the Académie française in 1780.Template:Sfn
In 1786, Lemierre successfully revived Guillaume Tell to great acclaim. Following the French Revolution, Lemierre expressed profound remorse for having produced a play that promoted revolutionary ideals. It is widely believed that the trauma of witnessing the revolution's excesses contributed to his untimely death. Lemierre published La Peinture (1769), based on a Latin poem by the abbé de Marsy, and a poem in six cantos. Les Fastes, ou les usages de lannie (1779), an unsatisfactory imitation of Ovid's Fasti.Template:Sfn
His Œuvres (1810) contain a notice of Lemierre by R. Perrin. and his Œuvres choisies (1811) contain one by F. Fayolle. Template:Sfn
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- Writers from Paris
- 1733 births
- 1793 deaths
- 18th-century French poets
- 18th-century French male writers
- 18th-century French dramatists and playwrights
- Members of the Académie Française