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A Short Biography of Alexis Piron

Author Name:

Alexis Piron

Born As:

Alexis Piron

Other Names:

Born:

09 Jul 1689

Died:

21 Jan 1773




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Epigrammatist and dramatist.

Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm called him a "machine a saillies                          
Selected Works:

Les Fils ingrats - known later as L'Ecole des pères -In 1728 at the Comédie-Française

Callisthene - 1730
 
Gustave Vasa - 1733

Fernand Cortes - 1744

La Metromanie - 1738, the hero, Damis, suffers from the verse mania.                          
                          
Elected in 1753 to the Académie française, but his enemies raked up a certain Ode à Priape, dating from his early days, and induced Louis XV to interpose his veto.

Elected to membership in the Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon - 1762.                          
Epigrammatism:

1. the composition of brief witty, ingenious, or sententious statements.
2. the composition of short, concise poems, often satirical, displaying a witty or ingenious thought - epigrammatist, n. - epigrammatic, adj.