Joseph-Gaspard Dubois-Fontanelle

See also: Dubois, Fontanelle (homonymy)

Joseph-Gaspard Dubois-Fontanelle , French literary man, born the October 27th 1727 with Grenoble, dead the February 15th 1812.

He worked before the French revolution with the Journal of Policy and Literature and with the Mercure de France, and was, in his last years, professor of the humanities to the central Ecole of Isere, then professor of history to the Faculty of Grenoble. He was exerted in various kinds of literature.

Among its many writings:

  • Shipwreck and adventures of Pierre Viaud , 1768;
  • African Anecdotes , 1775;
  • philosophical and moral Tales , 1779;
  • Life of P. Arétin and Cup , 1768;
  • a translation of the Metamorphoses of Ovide , 1802;
  • a Course of the humanities , published in 1813.

It also composed several plays, inter alia Éricie or your Vestal , 1768, of which the representation was defended.

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