Alexandre-Guillaume de Moissy

Alexandre-Guillaume Moulier de Moissy , born in 1712 with Paris where he died the September 7th 1777, is a writer and dramatic author French.

He was guard of the king when, at thirty-eight years, it was warned to follow the literary career, Encouragé by the light success which its first part had obtained, it composed some of others and was far from being always also happy.

Had passion of the play, it fell into a state from embarrassment which it was tiny room to be accepted in Russia, in 1772, the function of tutor in the Panin house. Of return to Paris, he wrote el played of more beautiful, ruined one second time, and died, says one, of sorrow to have so badly employed his time.

Towards the end of its life, it started to work for the troops of company which started to multiply much; Grimm considered it quite lower than Carmontelle, and said its dramas which they “were written in the tedious kind for the progress of the moralities and the drying of the readers”.

There is of Moissy the Provincial one in Paris or the capacity of the love and the reason refused by the Comédiens-Français and had fifteen representations with the Italian (May 4th 1750); Angelica or distorts it vocation ; Bélisaire , heroic comedy in five acts (1769); the anonymous Benefit or the forgery generous (February 1st 1744); the Single person undeceived ; the Comedy ; the Dancer or diamonds ; Two Brothers or overcome prevention , comedy in five acts and worms (July 27th 1768); the Two doctors ; the Two Soldiers ; the Duel ; Annoyed or embarrassment of the choice (March 1st 1759); False Inconstancies , comedy in prose (September 22nd 1750); the Women crafty ones (1770); the Force of blood ; the Strong Vapor ; Greedy the ; Tasted the ; the Dress without gallons ; Happy Misfortune ; the Happy Naturalness ; Impromptu of the love , comedy in an act (November 19th 1759, in-12); the Pretty Maidservant or the husband put to the test ; dangerous Connections ; unforeseen Misfortune ; Minuet and allemande ; the Sparrows ; the New School of the women , comedy in three acts and prose played successfully Italians (April 6th 1758, 1765, 1770); the New School of the husbands , comedy in three acts and worms (February 26th 1761); the bold Small farmer ; the Small Pox ; the Piece of poetry or the lunch of the academists ; the Pockets ; the Headstock ; the Prejudices ; the Misunderstanding ; the Ghosts (1769); the main Servant , comedy in three acts and worms (November 6th 1751); Virtuous Dying the ; the Vicious patient ; the Old Dandy in province ; the True mother , didacti-comic drama in prose; tested Friends , comedy in three acts and worms (1768); Plays of small Thalie, or New dramas dialogued on proverbs (1769).

There is also Virtuous dying to him the , (1770); philosophical Truths, drawn from the Nights of Young (1770); gallant Letters and morals of the marquis of *** to the count of *** (Paris, 1757, in-8°); Education, poem in five songs ($the Hague, 1760, in-8°); Small Collection of physics and morals (Paris, 1771, in-8°); the philosophical Nation, or dictionary of the comparisons and similarities ($the Hague, 1776, in-8°).

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