François Guillaume Jean Stanislas Andrieux is a lawyer, poet and dramatic author French, born the May 6th 1759 with Strasbourg and dead the May 10th 1833 with Paris.
Its life
; Old Mode
Under the
Old Mode, François Andrieux is clerk of prosecutor to the Châtelet. Friend of Hake of Harleville, it makes career as head clerk of the administration of finances and as writer. He marries Marie Jude on September 28th
1784.
; Under the Revolution
In 1789, it is received as lawyer and enters the services of the liquidation of the Debt. He is member of the Club of the Jacobins. After the fall of the Of Gironde in 1793, it leaves Paris and settles in Collin of Harleville where it lives discreetly during the Terreur. He becomes judge with the court of cassation (1796).
; Under the Consulate and the First Empire
Of return to Paris under the Directory, he is elected appointed with the Conseil of the Five hundred in 1798. He is elected in Tribunat in 1800, but not re-elected in 1802 with Benjamin Constant, Pierre Daunou and Guinguené to have taken too much independence with respect to Napoleon Bonaparte: “One rests only on what resists”, it would have says to Bonaparte which reproached him its opposition.
He is elected member of the Institute to his creation in 1796 and of the French Academy in 1802. He devotes himself to the teaching of the Belles-lettres and grammar to the Polytechnic school of 1804 with 1816. Starting from 1814, it teaches the French literature and morals with the Collège de France. He exerts these functions until the end of his life, in spite of the weakness of his voice. He becomes in 1829 perpetual secretary of the French Academy.
Its work
Among its comedies of intrigue, very with the last style, most popular Thoughtless the is
, represented for the first time in 1787. She is appreciated by André Chénier, which writes: “Since the Madnesses in love , it would be perhaps impossible to quote only one comedy in three acts which joins together with the same degree that Thoughtless the the charm of a brilliant versification, gaîté of the dialog, the originality of the characters and the prickly variety of the quotations. ” François Andrieux also points out himself by his contemporaries for his narrative tales and his poems. Its work however will quickly be eclipsed by the vogue of the new romantic authors to which he was opposed.
Works
; Theater
- Anaximandre, or the Sacrifice with the Graces, comedy in an act in worms of ten syllables , Paris, Italian Theater, Dazed December 20th, 1782
- , or Death supposed, comedy in 3 acts in worms , Paris, Commedia dell'Arte, December 14th, 1787
- Louis IX in Egypt, opera in 3 acts , Paris, royal Academy of music, June 15th, 1790. Words of Nicolas-François Guillard and Andrieux, music of Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne
- the childhood of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, comedy in an act, fray of music , Paris, Op3era Comique, 4 meadow year II (1794)
- Helvétius, or the Revenge on wise, comedy in an act and worms , Paris, Louvois Theater, 28 meadow year X (1802)
- the Treasury, comedy in 5 acts, worms , Paris, Louvois Theater, January 28th, 1804
- Molière with his/her friends, or the Evening of Auteuil, comedy in 1 act in worms , Paris, Th3e4atre Fran1cais, 16 messidor year XII (1804)
- the Continuation of the Liar, comedy in five acts, worms of Pierre Corneille, with changemens and additions considerable and a prolog , Paris, French Actors, October 29th, 1808
- the Old Conceited person, or the Two Old men, comedy in 5 acts, worms , Paris, Comédie-Française, June 6th, 1810
- Lucius Junius Brutus, tragedy in 5 acts , Paris, Th3e4atre Fran1cais, September 13rd, 1830
- Some scenes impromptu or the Morning of the New Year's Day. Prolog for the opening of the royal Theater of Odéon, under the direction of Mr. Picard , Paris, Theater of Odéon, January 1st, 1816
- the Actress, comedy in 3 acts, worms , Paris, French Comedy, March 6th, 1816
- the Young Creole, comedy in five acts, in prose, imitated of English of Richard Cumberland (1818)
- the Dream of the husband, or the Coat, comedy in 1 act and worms , Paris, Th3e4atre Fran1cais, May 20th, 1826
; Various
- Quarrel of Saint-Roch and Saint-Thomas, on the opening of the celestial manor with Miss Chamero (1795)
- Tales and opuscules in worms and prose, follow-ups of fugitive poetries (1800)
- Course of grammar and the humanities: synopsis of the lesson (1806)
- Works of François-Guillaume-Jean-Stanislas Andrieux (4 volumes, 1818-23)
- Dialogs of the speaker: Brutus or Dialog on the famous speakers (2 volumes, 1830-31). Translation of Cicéron.
- Poetries of François-Guillaume-Jean-Stanislas Andrieux (1842)
- Accounts and anecdotes (1900)