Eric Lenneberg

Biography

The Antilles

Wire of doctor, Dubuisson follows his father to the Martinique and Saint-Domingue towards 1766. It returned in France in 1770. Of return in Europe, he plays Ghent and Maastricht in 1777, in the same troop as Fabre d' Églantine.

He went on a new journey in America from where he brings back the title of managing director of the royal post office to Saint-Domingue in 1778. He gives to it a part, the School of the fathers or the Effects of the prevention, represented with the Cape-French the March 21st 1778.

Between Paris and Brussels

In front of the resounding failure, Dubuisson regains Paris. It composes some writings on the colonial questions and is tested without success with the theater. Under the threat of a Lettre de cachet, it takes refuge with Brussels in 1783. Consequently it composes or translates libretti of operas ( the King Theodore in Venice , music of Paisiello, the Director in the embarrassment or the business manager in angustie , music of Cimarosa, etc), going and coming between Brussels and Paris. Of 1783 with 1790, its life is divided between Belgium and Paris, and he affirms that this intermittent exile was justified by the fear of the Bastille whose minister would have threatened it because of political allusions of his tragedy Constantin of Scotland . As this period is that where the author gives with a fruitfulness exhorbitante in the operetta then in vogue, the Abbé Angot believes rather than it was devoted to his comings and goings to cause production of double grinding with his works, played alternatively in Brussels and Paris or Versailles. He also thinks of being made theater director in Brussels.

Before the French revolution does not burst, it had already mixed with the political events with Belgium, of which it known then prisons.

The French revolution

Repatriated with the Revolution, he embraced the cause of the revolution with enthusiasm, said the modern Biographie but despairing to be able to play a part in France, he passed in Belgium then in fermentation; decided there against the party of Van der Noot; was imprisoned, and freed in 1790.

Of return to Paris, it takes share with the August 10th, 1792 and shows very assiduous with the Club Jacobins of which he became the secretary, without still taking party in the conflict Girondin S Montagnard S. Envoyé towards the end of 1792, to the army of north, as police chief of the executive power near the general Charles-François Dumouriez in Belgium, he binds with the adventurer Berthold Proli (March 1793). It belonged to the secret insurrectionary Comité of which were Marat, Hébert, Chaumette, etc, and who occupies in the night of the March 6th 1793 to make assassinate 22 deputies of Gironde, these hypocrites of patriotism and virtue , as is expressed Dubuisson. a safe indiscretion for this time those which were to perish the October 31st.

It followed Dumouriez in the conquest of the Netherlands; and at the time of its defection, it had with him a conference whose it transmitted the result to convention. Accused on this subject, it caused itself its setting in judgment, and a decree of the April 6th 1793 approved its control. It had two missions of espionage to Metz towards Custine, him so suspect (May-July 1793 and August 22nd at the end of September).

A few months later, it becomes a very active Hébertiste. It continued to appear in the revolutionary party, appeared to hold with the intrigues of Gusman and Proli, and was denounced by Robespierre like having wanted to sow the discord among the Jacobins, who excluded it from their company. It was thus and Hébert of the Père Duchesne , to which Dubuisson had entrusted informing it of the projects of Robespierre applauds.

4 months later, judged by the revolutionary Tribunal, he is condemned to died and guillotine the 4 Germinal An II (March 24th 1794) and finds Jacques-Rene Hébert and his faction.

Dubuisson had divorced the September 7th 1792, father of two young girls of four and eleven years.

Publications

Dubuisson composed the works are:

Nadir or Thamas Koulistan , tragedy in 5 acts and worms, 1780, in-8°. The author praised himself to have made it in seventeen days, from where the judgment of the Toothing-stone: “there is the least knowledge neither of the human heart, neither of the theater, nor of the style”;
the Old boy , comedy in 8 acts and worms, 1783, in-8°;
the Miserly beneficial vintage , comedy in 5 acts and worms, 1784; nonprinted;
Albert and Emilie , tragedy drawn from the German theater, 1783;
Scanderberg , tragedy in 5 acts and worms, in-8°. At that time, Dubuisson had already passed to Brussels;
Trasime and Timagène , tragedy;
the Two Brothers , opera, 1792;
Flora , opera in 3 acts, 1792;
Zélia , opera in 3 acts, drawn from the Stella of Goethe;
the Table of pleasure, or Four Parts of the day, poem towards free, Cythère (Paris), 1771, in-8°;
Shortened Revolution of America Angloise, since the beginning of the year 1774, until the first January 1778. By Mr. ***, American . Paris, Cellot & Jombert 1778. First edition of this detailed account of the events in America. Two German French editions and one in and Italian appeared.
New considerations on Santo Domingo, in answer to those of Mr. H.D. , 1780, in-8°;
critical and political Letters on the colonies and the trade of the seaboard towns of France, addressed to G.T. Raynal , Geneva and Paris, 1785, in-8;
the King Theodore in Venice , héroï-comic opera in 3 acts, Brussels (Paris), 1786, in-8°.
about fifteen plays, represented in Paris, Brussels and Ghent between 1779 and 1794.

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