Pétion was one of those who escaped to Caen and raised the standard of provincial insurrection against the Convention ; and, when the Norman rising failed, he fled with Marguerite-Élie Guadet, François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux, Jean-Baptiste de la Salle and Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai to the Gironde, where they were sheltered by a wigmaker of Saint Emilion.

Louvet was first brought into notice as a politician by his Paris justifié, in reply to a truly incendiary pamphlet in which Jean Joseph Mounier, after the removal of King Louis XVI from the Palace of Versailles to Paris in October 1789, had attacked the capital ( which was still relatively peaceful ), and argued that the court should be established elsewhere.

Jean Louvet may refer to:

* Jean Louvet ( politician ), active in Provence in the early 15th century, see Tanneguy du Chastel

* Jean Louvet ( playwright ) ( born 1934 ), Belgian playwright.

* Jean Louvet, a politician active in Provence in the early 15th century.

* Jean Louvet, a Belgian playwright born in 1934.

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963 ) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

During this time she was a friend of Jean Racine, the great French playwright.

Under Marie-Angélique, later with Saint-Cyran's support, Port-Royal-des-Champs developed a series of elementary schools, known as the " Little Schools of Port-Royal " ( Les Petites-Écoles de Port-Royal ); the most famous product of these schools was the playwright Jean Racine.

He was nominated for a Tony Award for his work opposite Julie Harris in The Lark, by the French playwright Jean Anouilh about Joan of Arc, which was also reprised on Hallmark Hall of Fame.

* Jean Giraudoux ( 1882 – 1944 ), playwright, soldier, and statesman

Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux ( 29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944 ) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright.

She is also the subject of a tragedy by French classical playwright Jean Racine ( 1639 – 1699 ), entitled Andromaque, and a minor character in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.

In the first ( 1961 ) edition, Esslin presented the four defining playwrights of the movement as Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov, Eugène Ionesco, and Jean Genet, and in subsequent editions he added a fifth playwright, Harold Pinter – although each of these writers has unique preoccupations and characteristics that go beyond the term " absurd.

) By the age of ten, she had made a short film called Jean and the Calico Doll, but moved to Hollywood only when her husband, playwright Charles MacArthur, signed a Hollywood deal.

** Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet ( died 1986 )

François Guillaume Jean Stanislaus Andrieux ( May 6, 1759 – May 10, 1833 ) was a French man of letters and playwright.

Art films were also influenced by films by Spanish avant-garde creators such as Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí ( e. g., L ' Age d ' Or from 1930 ) and by the French playwright and filmmaker Jean Cocteau ( e. g., The Blood of a Poet, also from 1930 ).

While the French playwright Jean Genet articulates a very different world view in his dramas to that found in Brecht's, in a letter to the director Roger Blin on the most appropriate approach to staging his The Screens in 1966, he advises an epic approach to its production:

Jouvet began an ongoing close collaboration with playwright Jean Giraudoux in 1928, with a radical streamlining of Giraudoux's 1922 Siegfried et le Limousin for the stage.

In 1875, he attempted to sue a playwright he believed had insulted one of his ancestors, Maréchal Jean de Villiers de l ' Isle Adam.

He was friends with a wide selection of literary and artistic celebrities including the playwright Sacha Guitry, the singer Yvonne Printemps, the painters Kees van Dongen, Pablo Picasso and the artist-playwright-filmmaker Jean Cocteau.

* Maurice Rostand ( 1891 – 21 February 1968 ) was a French playwright, the son of the noted poet and dramatist Edmond Rostand and the poet Rosemonde Gérard, and brother of the biologist Jean Rostand.

Brookland was also home to the playwright Jean Kerr and her playwright / critic husband Walter Kerr who taught at nearby CUA.

Jean Marc Dalpé ( born 21 February 1957 in Ottawa, Ontario ) is a Canadian playwright and poet.

The title track " Hell's Ditch " is based largely on the life and writings of French author and playwright Jean Genet, in particular The Miracle of the Rose and Our Lady of the Flowers, with its vulgar description of squalid prison life.

Berenice () is a five-act tragedy by the French 17th-century playwright Jean Racine.

* 1996 – Jean Le Moyne, Canadian journalist and politician ( b. 1913 )

* 2011 – Jean Gratton, Canadian bishop ( b. 1924 )

* 1994 – Jean Carmet, French actor ( b. 1920 )

* 1702 – Jean Bart, French admiral ( b. 1651 )

* 1699 – Jean Racine, French dramatist ( b. 1639 )

* 1642 – Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman ( b. 1585 )

* 1935 – Albert Jean Louis Ayat, French fencer ( b. 1875 )

* 1928 – Jean Collas, French rugby player ( b. 1874 )

* 1803 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet ( b. 1716 )

* 1686 – Jean Mairet, French dramatist ( b. 1604 )

* 1944 – Jean Giraudoux, French writer ( b. 1882 )

* 1937 – Jean Harlow, American actress ( b. 1911 )

* 1966 – Jean Arp, German artist and poet ( b. 1886 )

* 1829 – Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician ( b. 1755 )

* 1826 – Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor ( b. 1740 )

* 1611 – Jean Bertaut, French poet ( b. 1552 )

* 1834 – Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician ( b. 1769 )

* 1985 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter ( b. 1901 )

* 2010 – Jean Constantin, Romanian actor ( b. 1928 )

* 1649 – Saint Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary ( b. 1593 )

* 1979 – Jean Monnet, French politician ( b. 1888 )

* 1962 – Jean Goldkette, Greek jazz pianist and bandleader ( b. 1899 )

* 2001 – Jean René Bazaine, French painter, designer of stained glass windows, and writer ( b. 1904 )

* 1851 – Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal ( b. 1769 )

* 1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, first Mayor of Paris ( b. 1736 )