François-Jean Willemain d'Abancourt
François-Jean Willemain d'Abancourt (22 July 1745, Paris – 16 June 1803, Paris) was a French man of letters and bibliophile. Willemain wrote a great number of books, including some poems, plays and fables, most of them inserted in the Mercure de France (1777), tragedies, epistles and drama essays. He also translated into verse the tragedy Der Tod Adams (1757) by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock.
François-Jean Willemain d'Abancourt
- Born
- 1745. · Paris.
- Died
- François-Jean Willemain d'Abancourt died, sources differ on the date (on 16 June 1803 and on 10 June 1803). · Paris.
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- France.
- Occupation
- poet, writer, playwright, translator, fabulist and bibliophile.
- Languages
- French and German.
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François-Jean Willemain d'Abancourt (22 July 1745, Paris – 16 June 1803, Paris) was a French man of letters and bibliophile. Willemain wrote a great number of books, including some poems, plays and fables, most of them inserted in the Mercure de France (1777), tragedies, epistles and drama essays. He also translated into verse the tragedy Der Tod Adams (1757) by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock.
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Also worked under the name Léonard Gobemouche. Born at Paris in 1745, died in Paris in 1803.
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- 1.Société de l'histoire de France, Annuaire historique pour l'année 1839, Paris, Jules Renouard, 1838, (p. 58)
- 2.Félix Wouters, Histoire chronologique de la république et de l’Empire (1789–1815) suivie des annales Napoléoniennes depuis 1815 jusqu’à ce jour accompagnée du plan de l’ordre primitif de bataille de l‛armée française à Waterloo par Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte, Bruxelles, Wouters frères, 1847 (p. 357).
- 3.Camille Dreyfus, André Berthelot, La Grande Encyclopédie, inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts, t.1, Paris, H. Lamirault et cie, 1886, (p. 18)
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- "François-Jean Willemain d'Abancourt", in Charles Weiss, Biographie universelle, ou Dictionnaire historique contenant la nécrologie des hommes célèbres de tous les pays, 1841
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