Paul Landois
Paul Landois was an 18th-century French playwright. There is no information on the life of this inventor of an intermediary theatrical genre which he called bourgeois tragedy and which was adopted by La Chaussée, Diderot, Beaumarchais, and finally by the playwrights of the 19th century. He composed some plays, including one entitled Silvie, in one act and in prose, played by the comedians of the Comédie-Française in 1741.
Paul Landois
Paul Landois · Bibliothèque nationale de France · Public domain
- Born
- 1696 · île de la Cité.
- Died
- 1769
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- writer · dramaturge · encyclopédistes · painter
- Languages
- French
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Paul Landois was an 18th-century French playwright. There is no information on the life of this inventor of an intermediary theatrical genre which he called bourgeois tragedy and which was adopted by La Chaussée, Diderot, Beaumarchais, and finally by the playwrights of the 19th century. He composed some plays, including one entitled Silvie, in one act and in prose, played by the comedians of the Comédie-Française in 1741.
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Born at île de la Cité in 1696, died in 1769.
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Denis Diderot: Encyclopédie, Band 1, 1751. – Artikel „Académie de Peinture“ von Paul Landois (schattiert), Seite 56-57.
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