Antoine Le Métel d'Ouville
Antoine Le Métel d'Ouville, (c. 1589 in Caen – 1655), was a 17th-century French engineer, geographer, poet and playwright.
Also recorded as Antoine Le Métel, sieur d'Ouville
Antoine Le Métel d'Ouville

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- Born
- 1590 · Caen.
- Died
- 1656 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- poet · playwright · translator · engineer · geographer · writer
- Fields
- literature · drama · geography
- Languages
- French
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Antoine Le Métel d'Ouville, (c. 1589 in Caen – 1655), was a 17th-century French engineer, geographer, poet and playwright.
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The brother of François Le Métel de Boisrobert, d'Ouville had some comedies presented, less remarkable for their versification than by the plot, among others les Trahisons d'Abhiran, a tragicomedy successfully given in 1637. He also authored les nouvelles amoureuses et exemplaires; Aymer sans sçavoir qui, comedy; La Coifeuse à la mode, comedy; les Fausses Véritez, comedy; les Morts vivants, tragicomedy; l'Esprit follet, comedy; la Fouyne de Séville, ou l'hameçon des bourses; l'Absent chez soy; l'Élite des contes; les Contes aux heures perdues ou Le recueil de tous les bons mots, réparties, équivoques du sieur d'Ouville; Jodelet astrologue, encouraged by Scarron's success. Under his name we also have Tales (2 vol. in-12), partly drawn from Moyen de parvenir which was attributed to his brother. He translated from Spanish to French.
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• Les Trahizons d'Arbiran, tragicomedy • 1634: Stances a Monseigneur le Cardinal duc de Richelieu… • 1642: L'Esprit follet, comedy (imitated from Calderón) • 1643: L'Absent chez soy, five-act comedy, in verse • 1643: Les contes aux heures perdues du sieur d'Ouville ou Le recueil de tous les bons mots, réparties, équivoques • 1643: Les Fausses Infidelitez, five-act comedy • 1645: La Dame suivante, comedy • 1646: Jodelet astrologue, five-act comedy • 1646: Les Morts vivants, tragicomedy • 1647: Aymer sans sçavoir qui, comedy • 1647: La Coifeuse à la mode, comedy • 1650: Les Soupçons sur les apparences, héroïco-comedy • 1680: L'Élite des contes • Translations • La Fouyne de Séville, ou L'hameçon des bourses, Alonso de Castillo Solórzano, 1661 • Histoire de dona Rufine, dite la fameuse courtisane de Séville, Alonso de Castillo Solórzano, 1731 • Les Nouvelles amoureuses et exemplaires, María de Zayas y Sotomayor, 1656
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Caen.
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• Théâtre complet, t. I, édition de Monica Pavesio, Classiques Garnier, 2013 (includes L'Esprit follet, Les Fausses Vérités, Jodelet astrologue) • Théâtre complet, t. II, édition de Anne Teulade, Classiques Garnier, 2013 (includes L'Absent chez soi, Les Trahisons d'Arbiran, Les Soupçons sur les apparences)

Identificatie Titel(s): Gevecht in slaapvertrek. Titelpagina voor: Antoine Le Métel d'Ouville, Het spookend weeuwtje. Blyspel, 1713
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Identificatie Titel(s): Gevecht in slaapvertrek. Titelpagina voor: Antoine Le Métel d'Ouville, Het spookend weeuwtje. Blyspel, 1713
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- 1.other sources indicate 1587 in Rouen, see James Wilson Coke, « Antoine Le Métel, sieur d'Ouville : his life and his theatre », Dissertation Abstracts, vol. 19, March 1959.
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