Jean-François Regnard
Jean-François Regnard (7 February 1655 – 4 September 1709), "the most distinguished, after
dramatist, born in Paris
, who is equally famous now for the travel diary he kept of a voyage in 1681.
Regnard inherited a fortune from his father, a successful merchant who had given him an excellent classical education; he then increased it, he affirms, by
Lapland; it was not published until 1731, when its description of the backwardness and simplicity of the Sami people, their curious pagan customs, alcohol addiction and untidy lifestyle, introduced these strangers to cultured Europe.[3]
After his return to
Comédie française, twenty-three in total, the best of them being Le Joueur ("The Gamester", 1696), Le Distrait (1697), Les Ménechmes (1705), and his masterwork, Le Légataire universel ("The residuary legatee" [1706]), following closely in the steps of Molière.[4] He was admired by Boileau
.
He died at his château of Grillon in 1709.
References
- ^ Richard Adolf Ploetz, Carl Julius Ploetz, A manual of French literature 1878:254
- ^ Regnault's voyages, and excerpts from them have been reprinted several times.
- ISBN 978-0-203-44138-1. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-486-42064-6. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
External links
- Works by Jean-François Regnard at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Jean-François Regnard at Internet Archive
- Bibliomonde: Jean-François Regnard
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
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