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MERCIER, LOUIS SEBASTIEN (1740-1814)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 153 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MERCIER, LOUIS SEBASTIEN (1740-1814) , French dramatist and miscellaneous writer, was born in Paris on the 6th of June 1740. He began his literary career by writing heroic epistles, but early came to the conclusion that Boileau and Racine had ruined the French language, and that the true poet was he who wrote in
prose
 . The most important of his miscellaneous works are L' An 2440 (1770) ; L'Essai sur fart dramatique (1773); Neologie (18or); Le Tableau de Paris (17811788); Le nouveau Paris (1799); Histoire de France (1802) and
Satire
  contre Racine et Boileau (18o8). He decried French tragedy as a caricature of antique and foreign customs in bombastic verse, and advocated the comedic larmoyante as understood by
Diderot
 . To the philosophers he was entirely hostile. He denied that
modern
  science had made any real advance; he even carried his conservatism so far as to maintain that the earth was a circular flat plain around which revolved the sun.
Mercier
  wrote some sixty dramas, among which may be mentioned
Jean
  Hennuyer (1772); La Destruction de la ligue (1782); Jenneval (1769); Le Juge (1774) ; Natalie (1775) and La Brouette du vinaigrier (1775). In politics he was a Moderate, and as a member of the Convention he voted against the death
penalty
  for Louis XVI. During the Terror he was imprisoned, but was released after the fall of Robespierre. He died in Paris on the 25th of
April
  1814.
See Leon Bechard, Sebastien
Mercier
 , sa vie, son oeuvre (Paris, 1903); R.
Doumic
  in the Revue des deux mondes (15th July 1903).


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