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LEMERCIER, LOUIS JEAN NEPOMUCENE (17711840)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 411 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LAP-LEO
LEMERCIER, LOUIS JEAN NEPOMUCENE (17711840) ,
French
  poet and dramatist, was
born
  in Paris on the 21St of
April
  1771. His father had been intendant successively to the duc de Penthievre, the comte de Toulouse and the unfortunate princesse de Lamballe, who was the boy's godmother.
Lemercier
  showed
great
  precocity; before he was sixteen his tragedy of Meleagre was produced at the Tlzedtre Francois. Clarissa Harlowe (1792) provoked the criticism that the author was not asset roue pour peindre les roueries. Le Tartufe revolutionnaire, a
parody
  full of the most audacious political allusions, was suppressed after the fifth representation. In 1795 appeared
Lemercier
 's masterpiece Agamemnon, called by
Charles
  Labitte the last
great
  antique tragedy in
French
  literature. It was a great success, but was violently attacked later by
Geoffroy
 , who stigmatized it as a bad caricature of
Crebillon
 . Quatre metamorphoses (1799) was written to prove that the most indecent


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