Duperrier-Dumouriez asFrançois

See also: Dupérier

Anne-François Duperrier-Dumouriez (1707 - 1760) was born with Paris from a family originating in Provence. He is the father of the famous French general Charles Dumouriez, victorious of the Prussians with Valmy (1792).

Police chief of the wars in 1732, it was charged, in 1739, of the intendance of the army of the marshal of Broglie. The music, painting, the literature had always had charm for him.

At the age of fifty-five years, awfully tormented stone, he forgot his pains while dealing with poetry. It was at that time that it composed Richardet ; it was an imitation of an Italian poem of Niccolò Forteguerri whose original has 30 songs that Dumouriez reduced to 12.

Dumouriez was Chevalier of Saint-Louis; he died in 1760. In addition to its poem of Richardet , which was printed the first time in 1766 and of which it had published, like test, the first six songs under this title Richardet, poem in the imitated bernesque kind of Italian (1764), it remains of him, according to the Nécrologe of 1773, fugitive poetries, an opera of Griselidis; a tragedy of Démétrius, translations of Italian, Spanish and English comedies and finally a work, very invaluable, on the administration of the armies, that Mister his son must give soon to the public, increased parts which miss there. But it does not appear that these works were born.

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