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LEMIERRE, ANTOINE MARIN (17331i93) , French dramatist and poet, was born in Paris on the 12th of January 1733. His parents were poor, but Lemierre found a patron
Dupin , whose secretary he became. Lemierre gained his first success on the stage with Hypermnestre (1758); Teree (1761) and Idomenee (1764) failed on account of the subjects. Artaxerce, modelled on Metastasio, and Guillaume Tell were produced in 1766; other successful tragedies were La Veuve de Malabar (1770) and Barnavelt (1784). Lemierre revived Guillaume Tell in 1786 with enormous success. After the Revolution he professed great
Academy in 1781. Lemierre published La Peinture (1769), based on a Latin poem by the abbe de Marsy, and a poem in six cantos, Les Fastes, ou les usages de l'annee (1779), an unsatisfactory imitation of Ovid 's Fasti
His Euvres (181o) contain a notice of Lemierre by R. Perrin. and his Euvres choisies (1811) one by F. Fayolle. End of Article: LEMIERRE, ANTOINE MARIN (17331i93) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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