Antoine Danchet

Antoine Danchet ( born September 7, 1671 at Riom, today's Dept. Puy -de- Dôme, . † February 21, 1748 in Paris) was a French writer.

Danchet completed his schooling at a school of Oratorier and later moved with the recommendation of his teacher as professor of eloquence to Chartres (Dept. Eure- et -Loir ). Later he was appointed as a lecturer at the Lycée Louis -le- Grand in Paris.

His first literary attempts date back to this time and he could soon debut successfully with a play. Therefore Danchet was his job as a teacher and devoted himself from that time only his literary work.

1705 took him to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, as a member. In this environment, he learned, inter alia, Marie- Angelique and Claudine Guérin de Tencin know that cleared him through their influence so many way. Through their influence Danchet 1712 by the Académie française as successor to the late Paul Tallemant determined ( armchair 5). He himself followed in 1748 by Jean -Baptiste Louis Gresset on this place.

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Works (selection)

• Apollon et Daphne. Paris 1698 (music by Jean -Baptiste Lully ).
• Cyrus. Paris 1706.
• Les solid venitiennes. Paris 1710 (music by André Campra ).
• Les fêtes d' Euterpe. Un ballet. Paris 1758 ( with François -Augustin Paradis de Montcrif and Charles Simon Favart ).
• Les Heraclides. Paris 1719.
• Hesione. Paris 1700 ( music by André Campra ).
• Idomeneo. Paris 1780 ( served Giambattista Varesco (text) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( music) as a template for the opera Idomeneo ).
• Nitetis. Paris 1724.
• Tancrède. Paris 1701 ( music by André Campra ).
• Les Tyndarides. Paris 1708.

• Théâtre de M. Danchet. Paris 1751 (4 vols )