Fabre d'Églantine

Fabre d' Églantine, whose real name is Philippe François Nazaire Fabre - ( born July 29, 1750 in Carcassonne, † April 5, 1794 in Paris ) was a French poet, actor, playwright and revolutionary.

Life

Son of a lawyer in Toulouse, he joined in 1770 a traveling troupe of actors.

His works include Philinte, ou la suite du Misanthrope (1790, a continuation of Molière's play The Misanthrope ), as well as the popular children's song in France Il pleut, il pleut Bergère ( " It's raining, it's raining, shepherdess "). He also edited parts of Jean -Jacques Rousseau 's novel Émile for the theater.

In the French Revolution, he was one of the followers of Georges Danton and Jean-Paul Marat, and was a member of the Club des Cordeliers. He voted in the National Convention for the execution of the king and wrote a September 1792 call, which contributed to the September massacres in the Paris prisons. Fabre was a member of the Committee for the creation of the French Republican Calendar, whose idea by Charles Gilbert Romme - stemmed, and invented most of the day and month names in the calendar. As followers of Danton, he was executed with this on April 5, 1794 the guillotine.