Louis de Boissy (1694-1758)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/136302
- Name (English)
- Louis de Boissy
- Short name
- Louis de Boissy
- Year of birth
- 1694
- Year of death
- 1758
- Short Description
- "Louis de Boissy (26 November 1694, Vic-sur-Cère – 19 April 1758, Paris) was an 18th-century French poet and playwright. He was elected to seat 6 of the Académie française on 12 August 1754. He wrote satires and several comedies, of which the best is Les Dehors trompeurs ou l'Homme du jour (The False Appearances, or the Man of the Moment), the great success of the 1740 season, with a cast including Quinault-Dufresne and Jeanne Quinault. Boissy had the concession to print the Mercure de France. His son was Louis Michel de Boissy. The historian Louis Michel de Boissy was his son." - (en.wikipedia.org 06.01.2021)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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