Louis-Sébastien Mercier (6 June 1740 – 25 April 1814) was a French dramatist and writer, whose 1771 novel L'An 2440 is an example of proto-science fiction...

Halcyon Days of France in the Year 2440: A Dream) is a 1771 novel by Louis-Sébastien Mercier. It has been described as one of the most popular and controversial...

head of Louis XVI., showed it to the people, and for a few moments let the blood from it trickle upon the scaffold. In Le nouveau Paris, Mercier describes...

painter Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814), French writer Michel Mercier, contemporary French politician Michèle Mercier, French actress Pascal Mercier, pseudonym...

after the event references 400 dead and 800 wounded. French writer Louis-Sébastien Mercier claimed in his popular 1770 novel L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais...

Le Déserteur, drame en cinq actes et en prose, a 1770 play by Louis-Sébastien Mercier Le Déserteur, a 1966 novel by Jean Giono The Deserter (disambiguation)...

everywhere, but the first place has been given to those of Paris." Louis-Sébastien Mercier (in 1782) noted that Parisians were often described as "perfect...

jamais (The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One, 1770) by Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Rip Van Winkle (1819) by Washington Irving, Looking Backward (1888)...

Lewis; Travels in France by Arthur Young; and Tableau de Paris by Louis-Sébastien Mercier. Dickens also used material from an account of imprisonment during...

original editions of his works. Louis-Sébastien Mercier Papers: In 1967, the library acquired the papers of Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814), who had had...

the pseudonym Pascal Mercier, made up of the surnames of the two French philosophers Blaise Pascal and Louis-Sébastien Mercier. Martin Halter, in Frankfurter...

revealing and sheer versions of this gown. By the end of the 1790s, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, observing the dress of Frenchwomen, noted that demi-mondaines...

named after the drama Jenneval, ou le Barnevelt français (1769) of Louis Sébastien Mercier. Dechet worked in Ajaccio, Marseille and in 1826 at the Paris Odéon...

famous 18th-century cafés in Paris and other cities. According to Louis-Sébastien Mercier, there were some six or seven hundred cafés in Paris before the...

to enslavement and despotism"). In his Tableau de Paris (1783), Louis-Sébastien Mercier stigmatised "les antres du fisc métamorphosés en palais à colonnes"...

Louis Mercier-Vega (6 May 1914 – 20 November 1977) was a militant libertarian and syndicalist, originally from Belgium. He also lived and wrote under...

comedy', as practiced by Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée and Louis-Sébastien Mercier Commedia dell'arte, as practiced in the twentieth century by Dario...

literally to The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One) (1771) by Louis-Sébastien Mercier Supplément au voyage de Bougainville (1772) by Denis Diderot –...

democratic mix. Writing a few years after the death of Voltaire, Louis-Sébastien Mercier noted: All the works of this Paris-born writer seem to have been...

published in Kingston, Jamaica, 1783, adapted from Le Deserteur by Louis-Sébastien Mercier) The Father (1789) Highfill, Philip H., Jr. et al. A Biographical...

Marlowe and Machiavellism. The story was also taken up in 1772 by Louis-Sébastien Mercier in his play Jean Hennuyer, Bishop of Lizieux, unperformed until...

Charlotte Lennox – Old City Manners Gotthold Lessing – Die Juden Louis-Sébastien Mercier La Brouette du vinaigrier Natalie Richard Brinsley Sheridan – The...

comedy', as practiced by Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée and Louis-Sébastien Mercier Commedia dell'arte, as practiced in the twentieth century by Dario...

1–35 in JSTOR. Sarmant, Thierry, Histoire de Paris, pp. 122–123. Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1817). Paris: Including a Description of the Principal Edifices...

for critique and discussion of societal issues. French writer Louis-Sébastien Mercier suggested that drama be used to promote political ideas, a concept...

welcomed by everyone. Just before the Revolution the journalist Louis-Sébastien Mercier wrote: "How monotonous is the genius of our architects! How they...

mathematician and philosopher René Descartes to the Panthéon, one deputy, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, a former Girondin and opponent of the Jacobins, protested that...

led naturally to the domestic drama of Diderot and of Sedaine. Louis-Sébastien Mercier considered himself a supporter of this genre. By blurring the distinctions...

Other revolutionaries describe Robespierre's policy as that of a terrorist. Louis Legendre, Camille Desmoulins, Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles, Lacroix,...

was likely inspired by Memoirs of the Year 2500 by French writer Louis-Sébastien Mercier. Griffith was however the earliest American writer to project her...