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    Jean-François de La Harpe (20 November 1739 – 11 February 1803) was a French playwright, writer and literary critic. La Harpe was born in Paris of poor...
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  • Tsar of Russia Jean-François de La Harpe (1739–1803), French playwright, writer and critic This page lists people with the surname La Harpe. If an internal...
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  • former neuroscientist Jean-François Garreaud (1946–2020), French actor Jean-François de La Harpe (1739–1803), French critic Jean-François Larose (born 1972)...
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    Paris in 1788 where he made the acquaintance of Jean-François de La Harpe, André Chénier, Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes and other leading writers of the time...
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  • Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe (4 February 1683 in Saint-Malo – 26 September 1765) was a French explorer who is credited with using the name "Little...
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    the Arts". Madame de Pompadour: A Life. Macmillan. p. 176. ISBN 9780312310509. Jean François, de La Harpe (1817). Lycée, ou Cours de littérature ancienne...
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    critical responses including from Charles Collé, La Morlière, Antoine Poinsinet, and Jean-François de La Harpe It is celebrated in a painting by Anicet Charles...
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    Publishing Co. 1982, pp.67-71 The Works of M. de Voltaire, London 1762, pp.221-51 Jean-François de La Harpe, Cours de littérature ancienne et moderne: Dix-huitième...
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    table of Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière, whom he met in 1782. Jean François de La Harpe nicknamed him "the Voltaire of the chambermaids"...
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    hosted by the old Marshal of Richelieu, were inspired by a text by Jean-François de La Harpe called The Prophecy of Cazotte. In this passage, the Count of...
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    d'Alembert, Jean-François de la Harpe, Charles Pinot Duclos, Jean-François Marmontel, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. The prince de Poix, in love...
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    to the interest of Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, himself a dedicated collector of books. The site in the Rue de la Harpe becoming inadequate, the library...
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    Amédée Emmanuel François Laharpe (born de La Harpe; French: [la.arp], 27 September 1754 – 8 May 1796) was a Swiss military officer who served as a volunteer...
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    prayer book by the name of The Imitation of Christ and Voyages by Jean-François de La Harpe, were read over and over, so much so that she grew tired of them...
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  • of Eglinton, politician and composer (died 1819) November 20 – Jean-François de La Harpe date unknown – Yelizaveta Belogradskaya, Russian singer and musician...
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    statesman Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, poet, novelist and fabulist Jean-François de La Harpe, playwright, writer and literary critic Louis-Alexandre de Launay...
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    gardening, writing poetry and translating from the classics. Jean-François de la Harpe, who is severe enough on Lefranc in his correspondence, does his...
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    Comte de Buffon, Jean-François Marmontel, Melchior Grimm, Edward Gibbon, the Abbé Raynal, Jean-François de la Harpe, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre...
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  • appointed editor (profits were invested into pensions for writers). Jean-François de la Harpe was the editor in chief for 20 years; he also collaborated with...
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    members of the Institute. In the Memorial, a journal edited by Jean-François de la Harpe, he discreetly advocated reaction to the monarchical principle...
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  • methodology, characterizing it as "strikingly similar" to what Jean-François de La Harpe was doing in the late 18th century, and noting that this approach...
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  • – James Woodforde, English diarist (born 1740) February 11 – Jean-François de La Harpe, French dramatist and critic (born 1739) March 14 – Friedrich...
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    were Jean-François Marmontel, Jean-François de La Harpe, the Comte de Buffon, the Baron von Grimm, Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre...
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    Jean-Benjamin (1780). Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne (in French). Paris: Pierres. La Harpe, Jean François de (1807). Correspondance littéraire...
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    to feel how consoling these prayers are to the dying.": 96  — Jean-François de La Harpe, French playwright, writer and literary critic (11 February 1803);...
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    de Guzmán y de la Cerda, Spanish scholar (b. 1768) February 9 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (b. 1716) February 11 – Jean-François de La...
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  • Samuel Foote The Devil upon Two Sticks The Nabob The Taylors Jean-François de La Harpe – Les Barmecides John Home – Alfred Hannah More – Percy John O'Keeffe...
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    Lemaire La Manufacture Le Mémorial : Jean-François de La Harpe, Fontanes, Vauxelles Le Miroir : Claude François Beaulieu (journal royaliste) Le Moniteur...
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  • – Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (d. 1824) 20 November – Jean-François de La Harpe, French critic (d. 1803) 14 December...
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  • Paris where he was protected by Mably and Voltaire recommended him to La Harpe. As early as in 1771, he gave a first example of the systematic criticisms...
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