Jean-François Marmontel (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa maʁmɔ̃tɛl]; 11 July 1723 – 31 December 1799) was a French historian, writer and a member of...

Marmontel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jean-François Marmontel (1723–1799), French literary figure Antoine François Marmontel...

politician Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998), French philosopher Jean-François Marceau (born 1976), Canadian judoka Jean-François Marmontel (1723–1799)...

an intermission and leads, without a break, into the next act. Jean-François Marmontel and Denis Diderot both viewed the intermission as a period in which...

Zémire and Azor is an operatic version of the story, written by Jean-François Marmontel and composed by André Grétry in 1771, which had enormous success...

spirit for the female protagonist. By 1765, the French author Jean-François Marmontel had found the sylph legend notable enough that he included among...

name is often mistakenly given as "Jean", due to an error made by Turgot in his letter to Jean-François Marmontel known as In Praise of Gournay. A street...

Antoine François Marmontel (pronounced [ɑ̃twan fʁɑ̃swa maʁmɔ̃tɛl]) (18 July 1816 – 16 January 1898) was a French pianist, composer, teacher and musicographer...

Jean-Benjamin François de la Borde (5 September 1734 – 22 July 1794) was a French composer, writer on music and fermier général (farm tax collector). Born...

a second time for violent menaces against the Prince de Rohan) Jean-François Marmontel, accused to be the author of a satire against the Duke d'Aumont...

period Illuminism Back row, left to right: Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, Pierre de Marivaux, Jean-François Marmontel, Joseph-Marie Vien, Antoine Léonard Thomas...

according to Jean-François Marmontel ("… le meilleur concert de musique qui fût connu dans ce temps-là."), which was led for twenty-two years by Jean-Philippe...

Administration de Librairie. OCLC 13144605. (in French) Marmontel, Jean-François (1891). Memoires de Marmontel. Paris: Librairie des bibliophiles. OCLC 2599671...

French novel on the life of the Byzantine general Belisarius by Jean-François Marmontel. It popularised the apocryphal tale of his being reduced to beggary...

Montgomery, American general (b. 1738) 1799 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and author (b. 1723) 1818 – Jean-Pierre Duport, French cellist (b. 1741)...

Jean-François Le Sueur (more commonly Lesueur; French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa lə sɥœʁ]; 15 February 1760 – 6 October 1837) was a French composer, best known for...

more ingenious, in this playful genre." A verse translation by Jean-François Marmontel followed in 1746. The first German translation, Der merckwürdige...

Daniel Casper von Lohenstein Cléopâtre (1630) by Jean Mairet Cleopâtre (1750) by Jean-François Marmontel Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, Her Tragedy (1639) by...

April 1790) : Alexis Sylvain, music by André Grétry, libretto by Jean-François Marmontel (reprise salle Favart) : Sylvain Philippe et Georgette, music by...

Lucotte Philippe-Antoine Magimel Edmé-François Mallet Sara Espada Bernardos Paul-Jacques Malouin Jean-François Marmontel Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu...

Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1785) 1723 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and author (d. 1799) 1754 – Thomas Bowdler, English...

to launch The Annual Register. April 27 – The French historian Jean-François Marmontel enters the service of Madame de Pompadour. July/August – The poet...

States (b. 1732) December 18 – Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (b. 1725) December 31 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer...

the form of a tragédie lyrique in three acts. The libretto, by Jean-François Marmontel, is based on the story of Odysseus (Ulysses) and Penelope in Homer's...

acts. The text is a reworking, by Jean-François Marmontel, of a libretto by Philippe Quinault, originally set by Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1682. Philidor's...

is an opera by André Grétry with a French-language libretto by Jean-François Marmontel based on the Classical myth of Cephalus and Procris as told in...

acts by the Belgian composer André Grétry. The French text was by Jean-François Marmontel based on La Belle et la bête (Beauty and the Beast) by Jeanne-Marie...

lived as a recluse. Among the few people he socialized with were Jean-François Marmontel and Voltaire. He continued to correspond with Fauris de Saint-Vincens...

the composer Niccolò Piccinni with a French-language libretto by Jean-François Marmontel. The opera is based on the story of Dido and Aeneas from Virgil's...

(April 2005). "Candide, ou l'optimisme, seconde partie (1760) / Jean-François Marmontel: un intellectuel exemplaire au siècle des Lumières". Modern Language...