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DUFRESNY, CHARLES, SIEUR DE LA RIVIERE (16481724)

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 647 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DRO-ECG
DUFRESNY, CHARLES, SIEUR DE LA RIVIERE (16481724) , French dramatist, was born in Paris in 1648. The allegation that his grandfather was an illegitimate son of
Henry
  IV. pro-cured him the liberal patronage of Louis XIV., who gave him the post of valet de chambre, and affixed his name to many lucrative privileges. Dufresny's expensive habits neutralized all efforts to enrich him, and as if to furnish a piquant commentary on the proverb that poverty makes us acquainted with strange bedfellows, he married, as his second wife, a washerwoman, in discharge of her billa whimsicality which supplied Le Sage with an episode in the Diable boiteux, and was made the subject of a comedy by J. M. Deschamps (Charles Riviere Dufresny, ou le mariage impromptu). He died in Paris on the 6th of October r 724. His plays, destitute for the most part of all higher qualities, abound in sprightly wit and pithy sayings. In the six volumes of his Thedtre (Paris, 1731), some of the best are L'Esprit de contradiction (1700), Le
Double
  Veuvage (1701), La Joueuse (1709), La Coquette de
village
  (1715), La Reconciliation normande (1719)
and Le Mariage fait et romps (1721). A volume of Poesies diverses, two volumes of Nouvelles historiques (1692), and Les Amusements serieux et comiques d'un Siamois (1705), a
work
  to which
Montesquieu
  was indebted for the idea of his Lettres persanes, complete the
list
  of Dufresny's writings. The best edition of his works is that of 1747 (4 vols.). His Theatre was edited (1882) by Georges d'Heylli.


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