Alexandre Frédéric Jacques de Masson Pezay

Alexandre Frédéric Jacques de Masson Pezay studied at collège d’Harcourt. Louis XVI of France is recorded as having studied under Alexandre Frédéric Jacques de Masson Pezay. The recorded working language is French. Positions recorded include Maréchal général des logis. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis.

• Born — 27 April 1741 • Birthplace — Versailles, France • Died — 6 December 1777 • Place of death — Château de Pezay, France • Occupation — Soldier Courtesan Man of letters and poet • Style — Rococo

• 1768: Zélis au bain, Paris, 1763, 1766, in-8. This poem, in four books, was written with enough natural but in a too free tone; the author, who worked ceaselessly his works, reworked it, changed the outcome and added two songs (la Nouvelle Zélis au bain, Geneva, in-8). • 1764: Le Pot-pourri, épître à qui on voudra, Paris, Sébastien Jorry. • 1764: Lettre d'Alcibiade à Glicère, Paris, Sébastien Jorry, in-12. • 1767: Lettre d'Ovide à Julie, in-8. • 1767: Suite des Bagatelles anonymes (by Dorat), Paris, in-8. • 1770: La Closière ou le Vin nouveau, opéra comique, Paris, in-8. • 1771: Éloge de Fénelon, Paris, in-8. • 1771: Les Soirées helvétiennes, alsaciennes et franc-comtoises, Paris, in-8; London, 1772, 2 vol. in-12. • 1771: Les Tableaux, followed by Histoire de Mlle de Syanne et du comte de Marcy, Paris, in-8; • 1771: Traduction en prose de Catullus, Tibullus and Gallus, Paris, 1771, 1794, 2 vol. in-8 et in-12. • 1773: La Rosière de Salenci, opéra lyrique, Paris, in-8. The music by Grétry made the success of this work. • 1775: Histoire des campagnes de Maillebois en Italie en 1745 et 1746, Paris, 3 vol. in-4 and atlas. • 1775: Journal militaire ou relation détaillée des campagnes de M. le maréchal de Maillebois en Italie: précédé et suivi d'un précis historique de cette guerre. A selection of his Œuvres was published (Liège, 1791, 2 vol. in-12), preceded by a historical and literary note. Masson de Pezay also contributed articles to the Encyclopédie by Diderot and D'Alembert.