Ange-François Fariau

Ange -François Fariau de Saint -Ange ( born October 13, 1747 in Blois, Loir -et -Cher département, † December 8, 1810 in Paris) was a French poet and translator.

Fariau de Saint -Ange was the son of a counselor of King Louis XIV. He completed his schooling at the Jesuit college of his native city, and then attended the Collège Sainte -Barbe in Paris. Supported and funded by the statesman Anne Robert Jacques Turgot got Fariau de Saint -Ange in the sequence a job as a teacher of grammar and literature.

1810 Fariau de Saint -Ange as successor to the late François -Urbain Domergue of the Académie française as a member included ( armchair 1). Since he already died after three months from the consequences of an accident, was not named in the same year the writer and painter François- Auguste Parseval - Grandmaison his successor.

Reception

In addition to his own literary works Fariau de Saint -Ange was primarily known for his translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses ".

Works (selection)

• L' école des pères. Comédie en trois actes et en vers. In 1782.
• Mélanges de Poésies. 1802.

• Henry Mackenzie: L' homme et la femme sensitive. 1775
• Ovid: Metamorphoses. 1785