Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet

Jean Pons Guillaume Viennet (born 18 December 1777 Béziers, Hérault, † July 10, 1868 in Le Val -Saint -Germain, department Essonne ) was a French soldier, politician and writer.

Life

Viennet the son of Jacques Joseph Viennet, who later became a priest Louis Esprit Viennet was his brother.

Viennet made ​​a career as a soldier and brought it up to the officer on the General Staff of Napoleon Bonaparte. Through the publication of his satire Epitre aux chiffonniers Viennet playful his military career and left the army.

Viennet retired to southern France, where a relative, Joseph Barthélémy Viennet, had acquired the Château de Raissac in the summer of 1828. Politically interested, he represented his native country as an MP, in addition he published in rapid succession his works.

As the successor of Louis- Philippe de Ségur, the Académie française in 1830 made ​​her a member Viennet ( fauteuil 22); the peak of his political career reached in 1839 with his appointment as a peer of France.

Viennet was a member of the founded by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais 1777 Société des auteurs et Compositeurs dramatiques and was its president 1841-1843. Succeeded by Charles Guillaume Etienne in this office, he followed that in 1845 again on this post. In 1847 Pierre -Antoine Lebrun Viennets successor and after Victor Hugo took over 1849/52 Viennet one last time this office.

At the age of 90 years Jean Pons Viennet died on 10 July 1868.

Viennets literary work covers everything from satires and heroic poems are where former heroes ( Napoleon ) sung to tragedies in the classical style, in which he paid homage to the ancient heroes ( Alexander the Great, etc.). More than his plays - the most part, the Théatre français ( Paris) had its premiere - were praised by the audience his historical novels and his fables.

Works

  • Epitre aux chiffonniers (1827 )
  • Épîtres et satires (1845 )
  • Fables (1865 )
  • L' Austerlide suivi de " la mort de Henri le Grand ". Nicolle, Paris 1808.
  • Marengo
  • Le siège de Damas. Poème en 5 chants. Dupont & Roret, Paris 1825.
  • La Philippide. Edition Dupont, Paris 1828 ( poem about Philippe Auguste )
  • La Franciade. Poème en 10 chants. Paris 1863.
  • Clovis. Tragédie en 5 actes. Paris 1820.
  • Alexandre
  • Achille (1813 )
  • Promenades philosophiques au Père Lachaise (1824, 2nd edition 1855)
  • La tour de Montlhery. Histoire du XII. siècle Paris 1833 ( 2 vols ).
  • Castel Sant'Angelo. Novel from the 15th century ( " Le château Saint-Ange "). Horn Meyer, Brunswick 1833 ( 3 vols ).
  • Histoire de la puissance Pontificale. Paris 1866 ( 2 vols ).
  • Histoire de la révolution of guerres. Paris 1827.
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