 | Louis-Sébastien Mercier (6 June 1740 – 25 April 1814) was a French dramatist and writer, whose 1771 novel L'An 2440 is an example of proto-science fiction... 24 KB (2,651 words) - 06:36, 23 April 2024 |
 | Halcyon Days of France in the Year 2440: A Dream) is a 1771 novel by Louis-Sébastien Mercier. It has been described as one of the most popular and controversial... 19 KB (2,048 words) - 06:44, 23 April 2024 |
 | head of Louis XVI., showed it to the people, and for a few moments let the blood from it trickle upon the scaffold. In Le nouveau Paris, Mercier describes... 22 KB (3,160 words) - 02:08, 22 April 2024 |
painter Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814), French writer Michel Mercier, contemporary French politician Michèle Mercier, French actress Pascal Mercier, pseudonym... 3 KB (392 words) - 14:34, 22 August 2023 |
after the event references 400 dead and 800 wounded. French writer Louis-Sébastien Mercier claimed in his popular 1770 novel L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais... 4 KB (475 words) - 13:41, 25 October 2023 |
Le Déserteur, drame en cinq actes et en prose, a 1770 play by Louis-Sébastien Mercier Le Déserteur, a 1966 novel by Jean Giono The Deserter (disambiguation)... 925 bytes (137 words) - 08:53, 24 December 2023 |
 | Alexandre Dechet (redirect from Louis Alexandre Dechet) named after the drama Jenneval, ou le Barnevelt français (1769) of Louis Sébastien Mercier. Dechet worked in Ajaccio, Marseille and in 1826 at the Paris Odéon... 3 KB (261 words) - 14:09, 11 August 2022 |
 | 1770), in Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, vol. 17 (1878), p. 527 Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Tableau de Paris (Amsterdam, 1782), vol. 1, p. 74f. Victor-Joseph... 8 KB (1,180 words) - 11:38, 4 September 2023 |
 | Lewis; Travels in France by Arthur Young; and Tableau de Paris by Louis-Sébastien Mercier. Dickens also used material from an account of imprisonment during... 56 KB (7,764 words) - 09:35, 30 March 2024 |
 | jamais (The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One, 1770) by Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Rip Van Winkle (1819) by Washington Irving, Looking Backward (1888)... 76 KB (8,559 words) - 02:14, 22 April 2024 |
led naturally to the domestic drama of Diderot and of Sedaine. Louis-Sébastien Mercier considered himself a supporter of this genre. By blurring the distinctions... 2 KB (245 words) - 22:00, 29 December 2023 |
 | original editions of his works. Louis-Sébastien Mercier Papers: In 1967, the library acquired the papers of Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814), who had had... 8 KB (977 words) - 11:16, 12 January 2024 |
 | revealing and sheer versions of this gown. By the end of the 1790s, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, observing the dress of Frenchwomen, noted that demi-mondaines... 17 KB (1,717 words) - 10:14, 19 March 2024 |
 | comedy', as practiced by Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée and Louis-Sébastien Mercier Commedia dell'arte, as practiced in the twentieth century by Dario... 36 KB (4,226 words) - 17:39, 28 February 2024 |
 | famous 18th-century cafés in Paris and other cities. According to Louis-Sébastien Mercier, there were some six or seven hundred cafés in Paris before the... 9 KB (1,208 words) - 01:49, 7 March 2024 |
literally to The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One) (1771) by Louis-Sébastien Mercier Supplément au voyage de Bougainville (1772) by Denis Diderot –... 28 KB (3,192 words) - 21:05, 10 April 2024 |
 | democratic mix. Writing a few years after the death of Voltaire, Louis-Sébastien Mercier noted: All the works of this Paris-born writer seem to have been... 17 KB (2,176 words) - 01:23, 19 April 2024 |
 | Louis Mercier-Vega (6 May 1914 – 20 November 1977) was a militant libertarian and syndicalist, originally from Belgium. He also lived and wrote under... 10 KB (1,027 words) - 07:33, 31 December 2023 |
Peter Bieri (author) (redirect from Pascal Mercier) the pseudonym Pascal Mercier, made up of the surnames of the two French philosophers Blaise Pascal and Louis-Sébastien Mercier. Martin Halter, in Frankfurter... 7 KB (782 words) - 09:27, 15 January 2024 |
 | to enslavement and despotism"). In his Tableau de Paris (1783), Louis-Sébastien Mercier stigmatised "les antres du fisc métamorphosés en palais à colonnes"... 36 KB (4,675 words) - 08:22, 7 April 2024 |
 | comedy', as practiced by Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée and Louis-Sébastien Mercier Commedia dell'arte, as practiced in the twentieth century by Dario... 10 KB (1,130 words) - 07:30, 18 December 2023 |
Charlotte Lennox – Old City Manners Gotthold Lessing – Die Juden Louis-Sébastien Mercier La Brouette du vinaigrier Natalie Richard Brinsley Sheridan – The... 7 KB (690 words) - 19:07, 29 March 2024 |
for critique and discussion of societal issues. French writer Louis-Sébastien Mercier suggested that drama be used to promote political ideas, a concept... 32 KB (4,263 words) - 19:09, 26 March 2024 |
 | mathematician and philosopher René Descartes to the Panthéon, one deputy, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, a former Girondin and opponent of the Jacobins, protested that... 162 KB (22,151 words) - 02:10, 22 April 2024 |
 | welcomed by everyone. Just before the Revolution the journalist Louis-Sébastien Mercier wrote: "How monotonous is the genius of our architects! How they... 148 KB (21,092 words) - 13:46, 8 April 2024 |
 | invited criticism. Just before the Revolution, the journalist Louis-Sébastien Mercier commented as follows: "How monotonous is the genius of our architects... 200 KB (26,621 words) - 05:40, 25 April 2024 |
 | ISBN 978-2-35428-079-6. Mercier, Louis-Sébastien (1985). Le tableau de Paris. Editions La Découverte. ISBN 2-7071-1129-5. Petitfils, Jean-Christian (2005). Louis XVI. Perrin... 178 KB (26,558 words) - 13:15, 8 January 2024 |
 | [Rose] Bertin, Jean-Joseph Beaulard, and Mademoiselle Alexandre. Louis-Sébastien Mercier dedicated a chapter of his Tableau de Paris to fashion merchants... 9 KB (1,176 words) - 11:14, 26 January 2024 |
 | Marlowe and Machiavellism. The story was also taken up in 1772 by Louis-Sébastien Mercier in his play Jean Hennuyer, Bishop of Lizieux, unperformed until... 69 KB (9,300 words) - 06:08, 14 April 2024 |
 | was likely inspired by Memoirs of the Year 2500 by French writer Louis-Sébastien Mercier. Griffith was however the earliest American writer to project her... 5 KB (446 words) - 11:26, 25 March 2024 |