Against Gilles Ménage he wrote a Térence justifié ( 1656 ); he laid claim having originated the idea of the Carte de tendre of Mlle de Scudéry's Clélié ; and after being a professed admirer of Corneille turned against him because he had neglected to mention the abbé in his Discours sur le poème dramatique.

At twenty he wrote a Discours sur l ' histoire and at twenty-two a pastoral, La Charité, which is really a novel.

There La Mettrie wrote the Discours sur le bonheur ( 1748 ), which appalled leading Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire, Diderot and D ' Holbach due to its explicitly hedonistic sensualist principles which prioritised the unbridled pursuit of pleasure above all other things.

In 1604 he wrote his Discours de la ville de Rome, and in the following year his Traité sommaire de l ' élection du pape.

He wrote sentimental plays, Le Fils naturel ( 1757 ) and Le Père de famille ( 1758 ), accompanying them with essays on theatrical theory and practice, including " Les Entretiens sur Le Fils Naturel " ( Conversations on The Natural Son ), in which he announced the principles of a new drama: the ' serious genre ', a realistic midpoint between comedy and tragedy that stood in opposition to the stilted conventions of the classical French stage.

The archbishop wrote several treatises of considerable value, including an Essai sur les hieroglyphes egyptiens ( Paris, 1834 ), in which he showed that Jean-François Champollion's system was insufficient to explain the hieroglyphics.

In 1779, with d ' Eslon's encouragement, Mesmer wrote an 88-page book Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal, to which he appended his famous 27 Propositions.

In 1785, Condorcet wrote Essai sur l ’ application de l ’ analyse à la probabilité des décisions rendues à la pluralité des voix ( Essay on the Application of Analysis to the Probability of Majority Decisions ), one of his most important works.

In 1756, Borda wrote Mémoire sur le mouvement des projectiles, a product of his work as a military engineer.

In the winter of 1798 – 1799, Louis XVIII wrote a biography on Marie Antoinette titled Réflexions Historiques sur Marie Antoinette.

Gobineau wrote positively about the Jews, including the long eulogy to the Jews in his Essai sur l ' inégalité des races, describing them as " a free, strong, and intelligent people " who succeeded despite the natural disadvantages of the Land of Israel.

The French writer Maurice Barrès ( 1862 – 1923 ) wrote about the river in his Un Jardin sur l ' Oronte.

Between 1845 and 1847, Franco-Belgian composer César Franck wrote an orchestral piece based on Victor Hugo's poem Ce qu ' on entend sur la montagne.

In 1829 he wrote the book Histoire de la Louisiane et la cession de cette colonie par la France aux Etats-Unis de l ' Amérique septentrionale ; précédée d ' un discours sur la constitution et le gouvernement des Etats-Unis (" History of Louisiana and of Its Cession to the United States of Northern America ; Preceded by a Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States ").

He wrote about these ideas many times, in particular he discussed them in great detail in the preliminary discourse ( introduction ) to a collection of his papers, Recherches sur les ossements fossiles de quadrupèdes ( Researches on quadruped fossil bones ), on quadruped fossils published in 1812.

Bussy wrote other things, of which the most important, his Genealogy of the Rabutin Family, remained in manuscript till 1867, while his Considerations sur la guerre was first published in Dresden in 1746.

He wrote a Histoire politique de la Revolution française ( 1901 ), and a number of articles which were collected in volumes under the title Etudes et leçons sur la Révolution française ( 9 vols., 1893-1924 ).

There, Fléchier wrote his curious Mémoires sur les Grand jours tenus à Clermont, in which he relates, in a half romantic, half historical form, the proceedings of this extraordinary court of justice.

In 1899 he wrote a short notice in favour of monarchy, " Dictateur et roi " (" Dictator and King "), and then in 1900 his " Enquête sur la monarchie " ( Investigations on Monarchy ), published in the Legitimist mouthpiece La Gazette de France, which made him famous.

Besides the letters, Noverre wrote Observations sur la construction d ' une nouvelle salle de l ' Opéra ( 1781 ); Lettres sur Garrick écrites a Voltaire ( 1801 ); and Lettre à un artiste sur les flies publiques ( 1801 ).

sur l ' influence de l ' air, etc., dans la germination ( Geneva, 1800 ); and he also wrote " Mém.

In 1779 he was named the Bernese bailiff of Saanen or Gessenay ( here he wrote his Lettres pastorales sur une contrie de la Suisse, published in German in 1781 ), and in 1787 was transferred in a similar capacity to Nyon, from which post he had to retire after taking part ( 1791 ) in a festival to celebrate the destruction of the Bastille.

Jourdan wrote Opérations de l ' armée du Danube ( 1799 ); Mémoires pour servir a l ' histoire sur la campagne de 1796 ( 1819 ); and unpublished personal memoirs.

After the Franco-Prussian War Lavisse studied the development of Prussia and wrote Etude sur l ' une des origines de la monarchie prussienne, ou la Marche de Brandebourg sous la dynastie ascanienne, which was his thesis for his doctor's degree, and Etudes sur l ' Histoire de la Prusse ( 1879 ).

At this period of his life he wrote Grégoire de Tours et Marius d ' Avenche ( 1872 ); Frédégaire, whose history, taken from original manuscripts, he published in 1885 ; a translation of a book of W. Junghans, Histoire critique des règnes de Childerich et de Chlodovech, with introduction and notes ( 1879 ); Études critiques sur les sources de l ' histoire carolingienne ( 1898, 1st part only published ); and Bibliographie de l ' histoire de France ( 1888 ).

Conti also wrote Lettres sur la grâce, and Du devoir des grands et des devoirs des gouverneurs de province.

1495-1527 ), in a work falsely attributed to Petrarch ( 1304 – 74 ), wrote in his Chronica de le Vite de Pontefici et Imperadori Romani that after Pope Joan had been revealed as a woman:

In 1842 he wrote the little opérette, L ' Ours et le pacha, based on the popular vaudeville show by Scribe and Saintine.

As part of the 19th-century evolution of the novel as a " democratic literary form ", Balzac wrote that " les livres sont faits pour tout le monde ," (" books are written for everybody ").

Bernoulli also wrote a large number of papers on various mechanical questions, especially on problems connected with vibrating strings, and the solutions given by Brook Taylor and by Jean le Rond d ' Alembert.

In 1917 he wrote for another Grossmith and Laurillard production, the operette Arlette, for which he contributed additional numbers to an existing French score by Jane Vieu and Guy le Feuvre.

" In 1758, the Jesuit missionary Pierre Nicolas le Chéron d ' Incarville, living in Beijing, wrote about the methods and composition on how to make many types of Chinese fireworks to the Paris Academy of Sciences, which revealed and published the account five years later.

Bergerac wrote Contre Soucidas ( an anagram of his enemy's name ) and Contre un ingrat (" Against an Ingrate "), while D ’ Assoucy counterattacked with Le Combat de Cyrano de Bergerac avec le singe de Brioché, au bout du Pont-Neuf.

He came to be known as the " swan of Cambrai " (" le cygne de Cambrai "), in opposition to his rival Bossuet, the " eagle of Meaux " (" l ' aigle de Meaux "), and he wrote his Maxims of the Saints while residing in the city.

He also wrote the Anglo-Norman La Estoire de Seint Aedward le Rei ( the History of Saint Edward the King ), which survives in a beautifully illuminated manuscript version, Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS. Ee. 3. 59.

During this time, he wrote his one act opera Sous le masque ( 1927 ).

He wrote in a July 1950 Paris-Presse article that Poulenc was " A lover of life, mischievous, bon enfant, tender and impertinent, melancholy and serenely mystical, half monk and half delinquent moine et le voyou.

Hill wrote: “ I have become convinced that art has no other goal than the truth, le vrai.

In 1761, Voltaire wrote of Thomas Corneille: ‘ si vous exceptez Racine, auquel il ne faut comparer personne, il était le seul de son temps qui fût digne d ’ être le premier au-dessous de son frère ' ( if you except Racine, to whom nobody can be compared, he was the first of his time who was worthy to be behind his brother ).

He wrote widely on philosophy, politics and ethics, on idealistic lines: La Famille, Histoire de la philosophie dans l ' antiquité et dans le temps moderne, Histoire de la science politique, Philosophie de la Revolution Française, etc.

Vinoy wrote several memoirs of the Franco-Prussian War: Operations de l ' armée pendant le siege de Paris ( 1872 ); L ' Armistice et la commune ( 1872 ); and L ' Armée française ( 1873 ).

Berlioz – who had commented that ' Meyerbeer not only had the luck to be talented, he had the talent to be lucky ' – wrote ' I can't forget that Meyerbeer was only able to persuade Opéra to put on Robert le diable ... by paying the administration sixty thousand francs of his own money '; and Chopin lamented ' Meyerbeer had to work for three years and pay his own expenses for his stay in Paris before Robert le diable could be staged .... Three years, that's a lot – it's too much.

Liszt also wrote piano works based on Robert le diable, notably the ' Reminiscences de Robert le diable ' and the ' Valse infernale ' S. 413.

Besides important contributions to La France and the Revue des deux mondes, he wrote Du mysticisme au XVIIIe siècle ( 1852-1854 ), L ' Idée de Dieu ( 1864 ), Le Matérialisme et la science ( 1868 ), Le Pessimisme au XIX ' siècle ( 1878 ), Jours d ' épreuve ( 1872 ), M. Littré et le positivisme ( 1883 ), George Sand ( 1887 ), Mélanges et portraits ( i888 ), La Philosophie de Goethe ( 2nd ed., 1880 ).

Napoleon said of him that, his genius grew bolder as it grew older, and a later author, the duc d ' Aumale ( Histoire des princes de la maison de Condé ), took the same view when he wrote: " Pour le connaître il faut le suivre jusqu ' à Sulzbach.