Charles-Albert Demoustier

See also: Demoustier

Charles-Albert Demoustier is a writer French born with Villers-Cotterêts the March 11th 1760, died with Paris in 1801.

Biography

He claimed to go down from famous the Racine for his father and from the large fabulist the Fountain for his mother (genealogical research on Charles-Albert Demoustier tends to prove that they is false)…

He followed some time with distinction the lawyer occupation, and delivered himself then to the literature. He preferred the letters with the bar, and began, in 1786, by Lettres in Emilie on mythology (1st part); 6th and last part appeared in 1798.

This work, written in prose and worms, " of a false style, manner and pretentious " we says Julien Through in 1883, is sown flashes of wit and madrigaux. It however obtained greatest success, and made almost school.

Demoustier was not dissimulated the defects of his work, it even proposed to redesign the two last parts which appear indeed weakest. But the bookseller who towards 1800 bought the royalties of the Lettres prohibits him by contract any correction for the edition of 1801 on the fifth and sixth parts. Indeed, this bookseller still had an important stock of a first edition which he wanted to run out peacefully. Demoustier did not have the leisure to wait, a death painful and premature carried it.

It also made comedies, inter alia:

  • the Conciliating or the pleasant Man , in 5 acts and worms, 1791;
  • the Women , in 3 acts and worms;
  • Alceste or the misanthropist corrected , in 3 acts and worms.

Demoustier still composed some light operas.

He finally left a Cours of morals , small Opuscules and Poèmes , 1804, in 8°.

Quotations & Poems

This loneliness profonde
 Started to afflict it;
In the most beautiful palate of the monde
 One wants to find with whom to speak

Works

  • Lettres has Emilie On Mythology , 1819 (Renouard Edition), (Bernardin-Béchet), (Touquet Edition)
  • the Conciliator or the Pleasant Man , 1791
  • the Tolerant one Or the Moral And Religious Tolerance , (play)
  • the Women , (Comedy in 3 acts), 1793
  • Subsidiary Love , (Opera in 1 act),
  • Between the Effectiveness And the Democracy , (Entente edition), Paris

Sources & Notes

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