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    Edmé Boursault (October 1638 – 15 September 1701) was a French dramatist and miscellaneous writer, born at Mussy l'Evéque, now Mussy-sur-Seine (Aube)....
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  • The name Edmé may refer to: Edmé Bouchardon (1698–1762), French sculptor Edmé Boursault (1638–1701), French writer and dramatist Edme Castaing (1796–1823)...
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  • Peintre ou La Contre-critique de L’École des femmes, September 1663) by Edmé Boursault was part of an ongoing literary quarrel over The School for Wives (1662)...
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    Granville, 2nd Earl of Bath, English diplomat (b. 1661) September 15 – Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638) September 16 – James II of England, King of...
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  • Jean-François Boursault called Boursault-Malherbe, (19 January 1750, Paris – 25 April 1842, Paris) was an 18th–19th-century French actor, playwright, theatre...
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  • Édouard Bourdet (1887–1945, France) Lucien Bourjeily (living, Lebanon) Edmé Boursault (1638–1701, France) John Griffith Bowen (1924–2019, India/England) Charles...
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  • Granville, 2nd Earl of Bath, English diplomat (b. 1661) September 15 – Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638) September 16 – James II of England, King of...
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    half-aquatic crew’. Steering clear of this international context, Edmé Boursault adapted the fable's story line but substituted other characters in his...
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    which the opposite side was taken by writers like Donneau de Visé, Edmé Boursault, and Montfleury. However, more serious opposition was brewing, focusing...
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    Other epistolary novels followed by Claude Barbin, Vincent Voiture, Edmé Boursault, Fontenelle (who used the form to introduce discussion of philosophical...
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    European fashion for creating plays around them. The originator was Edmé Boursault, with his five-act verse drama Les Fables d'Esope (1690), later retitled...
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    letter-books and miscellanies of letters. Within the successive editions of Edmé Boursault's Letters of Respect, Gratitude and Love (Lettres de respect, d'obligation...
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  • educator (b. 1572) 1700 – André Le Nôtre, French gardener (b. 1613) 1701 – Edmé Boursault, French author and playwright (b. 1638) 1707 – George Stepney, English...
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    Politician Nicolas Desmarest, Geologist Pierre-Jean Grosley, Historian Edmé Boursault, Man of Letters Jean de Brienne, King of Jerusalem Jules Guyot, Physician...
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  • used by the playwright Edmé Boursault for one of his plays critical of social pretensions; when Donneau de Visé complained, Boursault retitled his play Comédie...
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  • Fletcher and Massinger's The Prophetess, with music by Henry Purcell) Edmé Boursault – Esope à la ville Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery – Mr. Anthony John...
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  • (1634–1698) Philippe Quinault (1635–1688) Nicolas Boileau (1636–1711) Edmé Boursault (1638–1701) Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières (1638–1694)...
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    the latter only emphasises his poverty. In 1690, French playwright Edmé Boursault's Les fables d'Esope (later known as Esope à la ville) premiered in Paris...
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  • a figure in Greek mythology Learchus, the governor of Cyzicus in Edmé Boursault's plays Les fables d'Esope and Esope à la cour This disambiguation page...
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    However, a French version of the fable was put into the mouth of Aesop by Edmé Boursault in his play Esope à la Cour at the start of the 18th century, although...
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  • Ahasverus Fritsch, German poet and legal writer (born 1629) September 15 – Edmé Boursault, French dramatist (born 1638) Leopold George Wickham Legg (1921). Matthew...
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    continental romances: Letters from a Lady of Quality (1721, translating Edme Boursault's play), The Lady's Philosopher's Stone (1723, translating Louis Adrien...
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    Zélinde (1663) was primarily a literary critique of Molière's play, but Edmé Boursault's Portrait de peintre (1663) attacked Molière's moral character and insinuated...
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  • August 6 – Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (died 1715) October – Edmé Boursault, French dramatist and miscellanist (died 1701) probable – Hannah Allen...
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  • June – Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607) 15 September – Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638) 5 November – Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield...
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    One of his most notable successes was playing 6 characters in one in Edmé Boursault's Le Mercure galant. He retired in 1786, returning to the stage in 1791...
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  • (1625–1709) Thomas Corneille (1635–1688) Philippe Quinault (1638–1701) Edme Boursault (1639–1699) Jean Racine (1640–1723) David-Augustin de Brueys (1650–1721)...
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    the advice to slim is given by a rat within the building while in Edmé Boursault's drama Esope à la ville the advice comes from a passing fox. The English...
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    1829–1830 Paul-Auguste Ducis 1830, July – 5 August, Jean-François Boursault, Alexandre Huvé de Garel 1830–1831 Alexandre Singier 1831–1832 Émile Lubbert...
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    1795 1798 Claude Louis le Tellier 1798 1805 Henri Servant 1805 1805 Pierre Edmé Barbey 1806 1810 Henri Servant 1810 1811 Barbey de Chambrecy 1811 1814 Louis...
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