Philippe Néricault Destouches

See also: Destouches

Philippe Néricault , of his name of scene Destouches , born the April 9th 1680 with Turns and dead the July 4th 1754 in its castle of Fortoiseau with Villiers-in-Beer, is an actor and dramatic author French.

Its life and its work

Born from a father writer and organist, it makes his studies with Tours, then with Paris. Not very inclined with the magistrature for which one intends it, it is made actor and become director of troop. He then points out himself by Philippe-Florent de Puisieux, ambassador of France in Suisse, which engages it as secretary. He starts to write, encouraged by Boileau, and produced in Switzerland its first part, Curious impertinent the , who is taken again at once by the Comédie-Française. Its following parts open the doors of the French Academy to him, in 1723, and attract to him the protection of Philippe of Orleans, which entrusts several diplomatic missions to him. Become embassy secretary at the court of England, he marries English secretly and depicts his couple in the married Philosopher or the Husband ashamed of being it . Its fame reaches its apogee with the Glorious , which treats conflict between the old nobility and the rising middle-class. “The financial transactions of regency, known as Villemain, had multiplied unhoped-for fortunes and sudden poverties, at the same time as the taste of the luxury and the pleasure had increased for everyone. The bringing together of the nobility and the richness, their alliances, their ridiculous mutual and that they were communicated in became more frequent and more comic. It is this point which Dcstouches seized, and which it puts projecting in its two characters of noble proud, sumptuous, impertinent, and of the rich person libertine, hard, sottement familiar. ” In 1732, it is withdrawn in its property of Fortoiseau with Villiers-in-Beer and, become governor of Melun, it writes theological tests which the Mercure de France publishes. Several of its parts will be played only after its death.

Parts of Philippe Néricault, one hardly remembers today than three worms become proverbial expressions:

“The absent are always in the wrong. ” ( the unforeseen obstacle , I, 6)
“criticism is easy, and art is difficult. ” ( the Glorious , II, 5)
“A leopard cannot change its spots. ” ( the Glorious III, 5)

Voltaire said of him in its Siècle of Louis XIV : “One does not find in his parts the force and the cheerfulness of Regnard, even less these paintings of the human heart, this naturalness, this true joke, this excellent comic, which makes the merit of inimitable the Molière; but it did not leave be made reputation after them. There are of him some parts which had success, though the comic one is forced a little by it. It at least avoided the kind of the comedy which is only languorous, of this species of middle-class tragedy, which is neither tragic, nor comic, monster born of the impotence of the authors and the satiety of the public after the beautiful days of the century of Louis XIV. Its comedy of the Glorieux is its best work, and probably will remain with the theater, though the character of the Glorieux is, says one, missed; but the other characters appear treated supérieurement. ” ( Catalog of the majority of the French writers which appeared in the Century of Louis XIV, to be used for the literary history of this time , 1751.)

Theater

  • the Curious impertinent one, comedy in 5 acts , Paris, French Theater, December 17th, 1710
  • the Ungrateful one, comedy in five acts and worms , January 28th, 1712
  • the Irresolute one, comedy in five acts and worms , Paris, French Theater, January 5th, 1713
  • the Scandalmonger, comedy in 5 acts (1715)
  • the false Widow, or the Jealous one without Jealousy, comedy in an act and prose , July 20th, 1715.
  • Triple Marriage, comedy in 1 act and prose , Paris, French Theater, July 7th, 1716
  • the unforeseen Obstacle, or the Obstacle without Obstacle, in 5 acts and prose , October 29th, 1717
  • the married Philosopher or the Husband ashamed of being it, Paris, ordinary French Actors of the King, February 15th, 1727
  • Philosophers in love, comedy in worms, 5 acts (1730)
  • the Glorious one, comedy in 5 acts and worms , Paris, French Theater, January 18th, 1732. Text on line: * the Pupil, comedy in 1 act and prose , Paris, French Theater, June 5th, 1734
  • the Ambitious one and the indiscreet one, tragi-comedy in 5 acts and worms , Paris, Comédie-Française, June 14th, 1737
  • the Outside misleading or, the comedy Man of the moment in 5 acts and worms (1740)
  • the Beautiful proud one, or the spoiled Child, comedy in worms and 1 act , Paris, French Comedy, October 1741
  • the Love uses, or the Vindicatory generous one, comedy in 5 acts and prose, Paris, Théâtre French, December 20th, 1741
  • Loves of Ragonde, comedy in music, 3 acts , Paris, royal Academy of music, January 30th, 1742
  • the Force of the naturalness, comedy , Paris, ordinary Actors of the King, February 11th, 1750
  • the Young man with the test, comedy in 5 acts, prose (1751)
  • the Squanderer, or the honest rascal, comedy in 5 acts and worms , Paris, French Theater, March 23rd, 1753. Text on line: * distorts It Agnès, or the country poet, comedy in 3 acts and prose , Paris, French Théâtre, March 12th, 1759
  • the night Drum, or the Husband soothsayer, English comedy (of Joseph Addison) adapted to the French theater, in 5 acts, in prose , Paris, Théâtre French, October 16th, 1762
  • the singular Man, comedy in 5 acts and worms , Paris, Théâtre French, November 5th, 1764
  • dramatic Œuvres of NR. Destouches (6 volumes) (1822) Republication: Slatkine, Geneva, 1971

External bonds

  • Its parts and their representations on site CÉSAR
  • Biographical note of the French Academy

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