Etienne Aignan

Etienne Aignan , born the April 9th 1773 with Beaugency and dead the June 21st 1824 with Paris, is a Man of letters and Dramatic author French.

Biography

Etienne Aignan is, under Napoleon i, assistance of the ceremonies and secretary of the introducer of the ambassadors, then general secretary of the prefecture of Paris. He collaborates in the newspaper Minerve and written tragedies that the French Academy, of which he is elected member in 1814, judge poor.

He is the author of a translation of Iliade and he translates of English the Essai on criticism of Alexander Pope and the Ministre of Wakefield of Oliver Goldsmith like several other novels; he publishes literary and historical works in addition.

Principal works

the Martyrdom of Marie-Antoinette of Austria, queen of France , tragedy in five acts (1793)
the Death of Louis XVI , tragedy in 3 acts (1793)
With the Manes of the nine victims of Orleans . Funeral chants carried out for the first time on the theater of Orleans, the 29 meadow one, year III of the French Republic, and followed historical notes (1794)
Portuguese Hotel trade , Op3era Comique, Paris, Theater Feydeau, Thermidor 7 year VI (1798)
Test on criticism, poëme in three songs, follow-up of two philosophical speeches, free verse translation of English of Pope (1801)
the Minister of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith , new translation (1803)
Dream and reality , Op3era Comique in 1 act and in worms, Paris, Theater Feydeau, 17 nivôse year XI (1803)
the Constable of Clisson , opera in 3 acts, Paris, Opera, 20 pluviôse year XII (1804)
Polyxène , tragedy in three acts and worms, Paris, Th3e4atre Fran1cais, 23 nivôse year XII (1804)
Nephtali or the Ammonites , opera in three acts (1806)
the Iliade, translated into French worms, followed comparison of the various passages of this poëme with the corresponding pieces of the principal Hebrew, Greek poets, French, German, Italian, English, Spanish and Portuguese , 3 vol. (1809)
Brunehaut, or Successors of Clovis , tragedy in 5 acts and worms, Paris, Th3e4atre Fran1cais, February 24th, 1810.
Of justice and the police force, or Examination of some parts of the criminal instruction considered in their relationship with manners and the safety of the citizens (1817)
Of the State of the Protestants in France since XVIe century until our days, with notes and explanations historical (1818)
Of the Coups d'etat in the constitutional monarchy (1819)
History of the jury (1822)
foreign Library of history and old and modern literature, or Choice of remarkable and curious works, translated or extracted from various languages, with notes and remarks (3 vol.) (1823-28)
Extracted the Memories relating to the French history since 1757 (1825)

External bond

Biographical note of the French Academy

Sources

Gustave Vapereau, universal Dictionary of the literatures , Paris, Hatchet, 1876, p. 40

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