Jean-Marie-Bernard Clément
Jean -Marie- Bernard Clément ( born December 25, 1742 in Dijon, Cote- d'Or, † February 3, 1812 in Paris ), called " Clément de Dijon ", was a French poet, literary critic and translator.
Life
Jean -Marie- Bernard Clément taught for a time the subject of philosophy at grammar school of his native city of Dijon and sympathized with Voltaire in which he anknüpfte a brief exchange of letters. After moving to Paris, he was initially funded by the writer Mably. He was recommended to La Harpe by Voltaire.
Without much success, as rejected by the Comedie Francaise, he tried in 1774 at a comedy called Les Francs- maçons ( The Freemasons ) and 1779 at a tragedy entitled Medea ( Medea ). As an employee of the Journal de Monsieur, the Journal français and other magazines, he specialized increasingly on reviews, where he attacked the contemporary writers increasingly violent under the cant of antique and classic French authors and reviled.
The Marquis Jean- François de Saint- Lambert, one of Clément in this way also attacked contemporary author tried cold see through his journalistic relations Clément. At a then following rude letter procured Clément Saint- Clément Lambert against a lettre de cachet for defamation, the imprisoned Clément for three days in Fort l'Évêque. The dismissal owed to the intercession Clément Rousseau. The measure Saint- Lambert only brought about a further radicalization Clément and an increasing awareness on the literary scene. Clément told himself completely of the " philosophers " from and joined Élie Catherine Fréron, the influential publisher of " L' année littéraire " to. Clément reached from 1773 to 1779 in nine open letters (both in band thickness ), the Lettres à M. de Voltaire, living in Ferney, near Geneva " philosophers " Voltaire, who go wrong the name of his critic in " inclement " it. Fréron described the Lettres à M. de Voltaire as "a necessary antidote to the extremities of the false philosophy of our time". After the French Revolution Clément remained true to the genre and moved in turn to reviews. Especially vehemently he devoted himself to the author Ponce -Denis Écouchard -Lebrun.
Besides his work as a critic Clément tried as a satirist and translated Jerusalem Delivered ( Torquato Tasso ) and a number of the works of Cicero. 1800 was followed by the translation of the Amours de Leucippe et de Clitophon of Achilles Tatius.
Works
- Observations critiques sur la nouvelle traduction en vers de Virgile françois the Géorgiques, et sur les poèmes of the season, de la declamation et de la Peinture. 1771st
- Nouvelles observations sur critiques de littérature différents related topics. In 1772.
- Lettres à M. de Voltaire. 9 letters via one band. From 1773 to 1776.
- Les Francs- maçons. Comedy. 1774th
- Médée. EA Moutard, Paris, 1779, (3), IV - XVI, pp. 17-51.
- De la Tragédie, pour servir de suite aux lettres à Voltaire. 1784th
- Essais de critique sur la littérature ancienne et moderne. In 1785.
- Satires. In 1786.
- Projet de règlement sur la manière de tenir à l' avenir, soi - disant les philosophes. In 1786.
- Petit dictionnaire de la cour et de la ville. , 1788.
- Tableau annuel de la littérature française. 5 years courses. from 1801.