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GEOFFROY, JULIEN LOUIS (1743-1814) , French critic, was born at Rennes
rhetoric at the College Mazarin. A bad tragedy, Caton, was accepted at the Theatre Francais, but was never acted. On the death of Elie Freron in 1776 the other collaborators in the Annee litteraire asked Geoffroy to succeed him, and he conducted the journal until in 1792 it ceased to appear. Geoffroy was a bitter
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journal , L'Ami du roi (1790-1792), which possibly did more harm than good to the king's cause by its ill-advised partisanship. During the Terror Geoffroy hid in the neighbourhood of Paris, only returning in 1799. An attempt to revive the Annee litteraire failed, and Geoffroy undertook the dramatic feuilleton of the Journal des debats. His scathing criticisms had a success of notoriety, but their popularity was ephemeral, and the publication of them (5 vols., 1819-182o) as Cours de litterature dramatique proved a failure. He was also the author of a perfunctory Commentaire on the works of Racine prefixed to Lenormant's edition (1808). He died in Paris on the 27th of.February
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