Jean-Paul-André Razins de Saint-Marc
Jean-Paul-André des Razins | |
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Born | 29 November 1728 château des Razins in Saint-Selve |
Died | 11 September 1818 | (aged 89)
Occupation | Playwright Librettist |
Jean-Paul-André des Razins, marquis de Saint-Marc, (29 November 1728 – 11 September 1818) was an 18th-century French playwright and librettist.
A former officer of the Gardes françaises, Saint-Marc wrote the libretto for Adèle de Ponthieu,[1] a five-act tragedy set to music by Niccolò Piccinni. He composed several opéra comique librettos and numerous pieces of fugitive poetry.
In 1778, attending in Paris the famous presentation of Irène, after which the bust of Voltaire was crowned,[2] the marquis de Saint-Marc improvised this quatrain which made him famous:
Voltaire, reçois la couronne |
Voltaire, receive the crown |
Saint-Marc was a member of the Monument historique 23 July 1921.[3]
. The mansion in the city where he lived and died was registered asSources[]
- Actes de l’Académie nationale des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Bordeaux, Paris, E. Dentu, 1880, p. 39.
References[]
- ^ Razins Saint-Marc (marquis de), Jean Paul André (1775). Adèle de Ponthieu. Œuvres de monsieur de Saint-Marc : XVIIIe-XIX : 1728-1818 (in French). Paris: chez Monory.. Other editions : Adèle de Ponthieu 1785. Notice Bnf n° FRBNF39325381
- ^ .Arouet, dit Voltaire, François Marie (1785). Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (in French). 14 : XVIIe-XVIIIe : 1694-1778. Paris: Impr. de la Société littéraire-typographique..
- ^ Mérimée
External links[]
- Adèle de Ponthieu on Gallica
- Jean-Paul-André de Razins Saint-Marc on data.bnf.fr
- Jean-Paul-André de Razins Saint-Marc on data.bnf.fr
- His plays and their presentations on CÉSAR
- 18th-century French dramatists and playwrights
- French opera librettists
- 1728 births
- People from Guyenne
- 1818 deaths