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FONTAN, LOUIS MARIE (1801-1839)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 607 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FLA-FRA
FONTAN, LOUIS MARIE (1801-1839) , French man of letters, was born at Lorient on the 4th of November 18or. He began his career as a clerk in a government office, but was dismissed for taking
part
  in a political banquet. At the age of nineteen he went to Paris and began to contribute to the Tablettes and the Album. He was brought to trial for political articles written for the latter
paper
 , but defended himself so energetically that he secured the indefinite postponement of his case. The offending
paper
  was suppressed for a time, and
Fontan
  produced a collection of political poems, Odes et epitres, and a number of plays, of which Perkins Warbec (1828), written in collaboration with MM. Halevy and Drouineau, was the most successful. In 1828 the Album was revived, and in it
Fontan
  published a virulent but witty attack on Charles X., entitled Le Mouton enrage (loth June 1829). To escape the inevitable
prosecution
  Fontan fled over the frontier, but, finding no safe asylum, he returned to Paris to give himself up to the authorities, and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and a heavy fine. He was liberated by the revolution of 183o, and his Jeanne la folle, performed in the same year, gained a success due perhaps more to sympathy with the author's political principles than to the merits of the piece itself, a somewhat crude and violent picture of
Breton
  history. A drama representing the trial of
Marshal
  Ney, which he wrote in collaboration with Charles Dupenty, Le Proces d'un marechal de France (printed 1831), was suppressed on the night of its production. Fontan died in Paris on the loth of
October 1839.
A sympathetic portrait of Fontan as a prisoner, and an
analysis
  of his
principal
  works, are to be found in Jules Janin's Histoire de la litterature dramatique, vol. i.


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