Pigault-Lebrun
Charles-Antoine-Guillaume Pigault de l'Espinoy, better known as Pigault-Lebrun, (8 April 1753 – 24 July 1835) was a French novelist, playwright, and Epicurean[citation needed]. Victor Hugo references Pigault-Lebrun in chapter I part 8 of Les Misérables, describing a senator as "probably a product of Pigault-le Brun."
Life
He was born at
He wrote more than twenty plays, and a large number of novels, the first of which appeared in 1787. In his old age he took to graver work, and executed an abridgment of French history in eight volumes, besides some other work. His Œuvres complètes were published in twenty volumes between 1822 and 1824, but much of his work is subsequent to this collection.[1]
The style of Pigault's novels is lively and rich, and the morality is very far from severe. As almost the father of a kind of literature which later developed enormously, Pigault-Lebrun deserves a certain place in literary history. Among the most celebrated of his novels may be mentioned L'Enfant du Carnaval (1792) and Angelique et Jeanneton de la place Maubert (1799). His Citateur (2 vols., 1803), a collection of quotations against Christianity, was forbidden and yet several times reprinted.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Pigault-Lebrun, Charles Antoine Guillaume". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 595. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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