Louis Simon Auger

See also: Auger

Louis Simon Auger is a journalist, critical literary and French dramatic author, born the December 29th 1772 with Paris and dead the January 2nd 1829 in Paris.

In 1789, its odalisque Harlequin, comedy-parade in 1 act and prose, fray of light comedies is played Paris with the Theater of the Troubadours. It is made known after the Révolution as ultraroyalist journalist while becoming writer with the universal Biographie and while collaborating in various newspapers such as the Journal of the Empire and the Mercure de France . It is named royal critic in 1814.

In 1816, it is elected member of the French Academy, of which he becomes the perpetual secretary in 1826; he is also Member of the Commission of the Dictionnaire . Savage opposing Romanticism, it attacks the Racine and Shakespeare of Stendhal in front of the Chambre of the pars in 1823. January 2nd, 1829, it commits suicide by throwing in the the Seine top of the Pont of Arts.

The literary activity of Louis Simon Auger especially consisted in publishing the traditional ones, among whom Boileau, the Heather, Molière, Racine and the Fountain. It also publishes works of Montesquieu, Bossuet, Ducis, Sedaine, Dancourt and Duclos, as well as the memories of Malfilâtre, Madam de Lafayette and the Marquise of Caylus. One owes him also a universal Dictionnaire of biography old and modern , published in 8 volumes in 1810, and philosophical Mélanges and arts persons where are joined together many his notes, comments and praises, are appeared in 1828.

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Biographical note of the French Academy

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