Pierre-Édouard Lémontey

Pierre- Édouard Lemontey ( born January 14, 1762, Lyon, † June 26, 1826 in Paris) was a French scholar, writer and librettist, as well as historians.

Pierre- Édouard Lemontey studied law and contributed to the convocation of the Estates General in 1789 by a small font much to the fact that the Protestants civil rights were returned.

During the reign of terror he lived in Switzerland and returned only in 1795 after the fall of the Montagnards returned to France. He later became head of the theater censorship was added to the Académie française in 1819.

Among his operas Palma, ou le Voyage en Grèce made ​​great fortune during the Revolution; of his other writings are to be emphasized in the written novel star spirit Irons - nous à Paris? ou la famille du Jura (1804 ) and the Essai sur l' établissement monarchique de Louis XIV ( 1818), a precursor to his excellent Histoire de la Regence et de la minorité de Louis XV jusqu'au ministère du cardinal de Fleury (1832, 2 vols ) which was allowed to be printed but only after the July Revolution. A collection of his " oeuvre " was released in 1829 to Paris in 5 volumes.