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LAYA, JEAN LOUIS (1761-1833) , French dramatist, ,was born in Paris on the 4th of December 1761 and died in August 1833. He wrote his first comedy in collaboration with Gabriel M. J. B. Legouve in 1785, bu,t the piece, though accepted by the Comedie Francaise, was never represented. In 1789 he produced a plea for religious toleration in the form of a five-act tragedy in verse, Jean Galas; the injustice of the disgrace cast on a family by the crime of one of its members formed the theme of Les Dangers de l' opinion (1790); but it is by his Ami des lois (1793) that Laya is remembered. This energetic protest against mob-rule
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1 The verb " to lie," to speak falsely, to tell a falsehood, is in O. Eng. Mogan; it appears in most Teutonic languages, e.g. Dutch lugen, Ger. liigen. nineteen days before the execution of Louis XVI. Ten days after its first production the piece was prohibited by the commune, but the public demanded its representation; the mayor of Paris was compelled to appeal to the convention, and the piece was played while some 30,000 Parisians guarded the hall
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See Notice biographique sur J. L. Laya (1833) ; Ch. Nodier, Discours de reception, 26th December 1833) ; Welschinger, Thedtre de la revolution (188o). End of Article: LAYA, JEAN LOUIS (1761-1833) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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