Antoine de Léris

Antoine de Léris , born with Mount-Louis (the Eastern Pyrenees) the February 8th 1723 and died in 1795, is a historian of the theater and polygraph French, author of the portable, historical Dictionnaire & arts person of the theaters , tool of essential reference to the historians of the theater and literature in France of.

Come to make his studies with Paris, Antoine de Léris set and bought at it the load of first usher of the Chambre of the accounts. The first edition of sound Dictionnaire on 560 pages appeared in 1754, followed by a second, “review, corrected and considerably increased”, of 730 pages, in 1763, of which the complete title is portable Dictionnaire of the theaters, containing the origin of the various theaters of Paris; the name of all the parts which were represented there since their establishment & that of the Parts played in Province or which have simply appeared by the way of the impression for more than three centuries; with Anecdotes and Remarks on the majority: the name, & interesting characteristics of the Life of the Authors, Musicians & Actors; with the Catalog of their Works, & the talk of their talents: A Chronology of the Authors, & Musicians; With a Chronology of all the Operas, & Parts which have appeared for thirty-three years . This last edition was reproduced in Fac-similé with Geneva by Slatkine in 1970. Like writes it Antoine de Léris in his Avertissement , it is about a work which wants to be at the same time concise and precise. He adds:

The people with the fact of this work can only know well how much attention is needed, of constancy, & research to compose similar Dictionnaire, to simplify it, & to make it complete & exact. The matter is dry & difficult, & the Authors, who treated some, are not always of agreement on the same subject. According to that, a word, a name, a date, cause readings of several days, & in various kinds, often extremely distant from that which seems to be the subject of the Theater; checks, searchs for several years; & ask finally a spirit patient, & always full with its subject, never nothing to neglect what can be used for it early or late.

Antoine de Léris is also the author of a Géographie made easy , published in 1753, and of two other works written in collaboration, the first with an abbot, the second with three printer-booksellers: the Feeling of a harmoniphile on various works of music , appeared in 1756, and After-soupées campaign, or Collection of short, amusing and interesting stories , appeared in 1759.

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Text on line on Gallica (in format pdf and facsimile)

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