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Alexis Piron ( July 9, 1689 – January 21, 1773 ) was a French epigrammatist and dramatist.
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Rameau took his first tentative steps into composing stage music when the writer Alexis Piron asked him to provide songs for his popular comic plays written for the Paris Fairs.
Rivarol's rivals in France-in sharp conversational sayings-included Alexis Piron and Nicolas Chamfort.
When about seventeen, however, he made the acquaintance of Alexis Piron, and afterwards, through Gallet ( 1698 ?- 1757 ), of Panard.
In 1739 the Society of the Caveau, which numbered among its members Helvétius, Charles Pinot Duclos, Pierre Joseph Bernard, called Gentil-Bernard, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Alexis Piron, and the two Crébillons, was dissolved, and was not reconstituted till twenty years afterwards.
Eventually she formed a literary salon, which had among its habitués Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, Pierre de Marivaux, Alexis Piron and others.
These were followed by Le Méchant which was qualified by Ferdinand Brunetière as the best verse comedy of the French 18th century theatre, even surpassing the Métromanie of Alexis Piron.
From 1729 to 1739 he participated in a series of dinners called " Le Caveau " ( named after the cabaret where they were held ) with other artists, including Alexis Piron, Charles Collé, and Charles Duclos.
In 1716 one of the troupes ' leaders, Catherine Vanderberg purchased additional rights and began to present more original works by authors, such as Jacques-Philippe d ' Orneval, Alexis Piron, and Louis Fuzelier.
Alexis Piron nicknames the author " le Reverend Père Chaussee ," and ridiculed him in one of his most famous epigrams.
In spite of fierce opposition from rival theatres the venture flourished and leading playwrights of the time, including Alain René Lesage and Alexis Piron, contributed works in the new form.
His rivals were not slow to take up the charge of plagiarism, to which Étienne replied that the story was an old one ( it existed in an old French fabliaus ) and had already been treated by Alexis Piron in Les Fils ingrats.
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On July 13, 2010, Nájera was traded to the Charlotte Bobcats along with Erick Dampier and Matt Carroll in exchange for Tyson Chandler and Alexis Ajinça.
Shelley Alexis Duvall ( born July 7, 1949 ) is an American actress, best known for her acting roles in the films Thieves Like Us, 3 Women, The Shining and Popeye.
After a year of military service he made his debut at the Comédie Française on July 17, 1844, as Alexis in Les Héritiers and Mascarelles in Les Précieuses ridicules.
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Henri Alexis Brialmont ( Venlo 25 May 1821 – Brussels 21 July 1903 ) was a Dutch-born Belgian military engineer.
Father Alexis André ( 6 July 1832 – 10 January 1893 ) was a missionary Roman Catholic priest active in Western Canada.
On 27 July, the start of the Thermidorian Reaction, Legendre, after having signed his name on the list of speakers, would have asked Jacques Alexis Thuriot ( one of the putsch leaders ): " Strike my name off.
On July 13, 2010, Dampier was traded to the Charlotte Bobcats along with Matt Carroll and Eduardo Nájera in exchange for Tyson Chandler and Alexis Ajinça.
The date chosen was 17 July ; on the European mainland this date conflicted with the feast of St. Alexis, necessitating a shift to 16 July, which remains the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel throughout the Catholic Church.
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