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    Jean-François Ducis (French: [dysi]; 22 August 1733 – 31 March 1816) was a French dramatist and adapter of Shakespeare. Ducis was born in Versailles,...
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  • International Studies People: Jean-François Ducis (1733-1816), French dramatist Louis Ducis (1775-1847), French painter Ducis Rodgers (b. 1973), American...
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    nineteenth centuries the play was better known than Shakespeare's in Jean-François Ducis' adaptation and its subsequent translations, in which a heroine renamed...
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    opinion. Conan IV is mentioned in the tragedy Jean sans Terre ou la mort d'Arthur (1791) by Jean-François Ducis, the novels Time and Chance (2002), Prince...
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    to write an elegy to her daughter, which, encouraged by her uncle Jean-François Ducis, she published in 1804. The collection of poems was reprinted six...
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  • London as The Jubilee. unknown date Jean-François Ducis stages his version of Shakespeare's Hamlet in Paris. Jean-Jacques Rousseau completes the Confessions...
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    Salt (1957) novel by Thomas B. Costain Jean sans Terre ou la mort d’Arthur (1791) tragedy by Jean-François Ducis King John (1800) tragedy by Richard Valpy...
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  • Gaîté, he parodied plays of William Shakespeare, that was adapted by Jean-François Ducis. 1776: La Bonne femme, ou le Phénix (vaudeville, parody of Alceste)...
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  • (1593–1596) tragedy by William Shakespeare Jean sans Terre ou la mort d’Arthur (1791) by Jean-François Ducis King John (1800) by Richard Valpy La Mort...
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    Fontanes went to Paris, where he found a friend in the dramatist Jean-François Ducis. His first published poems, some of which were inspired by English...
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  • magistrate and archaeologist François-Marie Arouet dit Voltaire, 1746–1778, playwright, historian, philosopher and poet Jean-François Ducis, 1778–1816, poet and...
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    expressed opposition to serfdom. In 1808 he published a translation of Jean-François Ducis's adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear. He also translated the tragedy...
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    by Jean-François Ducis, first performed in 1769, was still being given at the Comédie-Française, and Dumas knew the leading role by heart. The Ducis play...
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    "Edouard Stern: Une Dynastie de Banquiers" (PDF). lepoint.fr. "Jean-François Ducis". art.nelson-atkins.org. Retrieved 2023-11-03. Edgar Stern (1854-1937)...
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    Translation have sometimes transformed the original dramatically. Jean-François Ducis created a version in French, first performed in 1769, adapted to...
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    en attendant le vaudeville à la tragédie, parody of Othello by Jean-François Ducis He also made the opening prologue for the Théâtre de la Reine in...
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    Auguste-François Michaut (1786 – 1879) was a French coin engraver of France and Holland, a medallist and sculptor. Auguste-François Michaut was born in...
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    Cramoisy [fr], 1655). (in French and Latin) Du Chesne, François (1660), Histoire de tous les cardinaux françois de naissance ou qui ont été promus au cardinalat...
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    Brissac (1734–1792), former governor of Paris, in the common ditch Jean-François Ducis (1733–1816), dramaturgist Charles Durand, comte de Linois (1761–1848)...
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  • Friedrich Nicolai, German critic and bookseller (died 1811) August 22 – Jean-François Ducis, French dramatist (died 1816) September 5 – Christoph Martin Wieland...
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    of Religion. He served under five French kings (Louis XII, François I, Henri II, François II and Charles IX). He began his career in the latter Italian...
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  • Massillon (1717–1742) François-Marie Le Maistre de La Garlaye (1743–1775) François of Bonnal (François III) (1776–1800) Jean-François Périer (constitutional...
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    (illegitimate) daughter of Henry II of France and his Italian lover Filippa Duci. She played an important political role during the French Wars of Religion...
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    family. Hans Naef has established, on the basis of letters from Jean-Francois Ducis, that Elisabeth was born out of wedlock to Elizabeth Harvey, née...
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  • Pierre-Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 18 May 1792: Arlequin Cruello, parody of Othello by Jean-François Ducis, in 2 acts and in...
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    Countess Almaviva 1799: Tartuffe by Molière- Elmire 1799: Abufar by Jean Francois Ducis- Selma 1800: Camille-Camille 1800: Montmorency- Anne 1800: Orphis...
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  • 16 January – Jacques-René Tenon, surgeon (born 1724) 31 March – Jean-François Ducis, dramatist (born 1733) 8 April – Julie Billiart, religious leader...
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    fell ill. Despite his occasional affairs with other women, such as Philippa Duci, Janet Fleming, and Nicole de Savigny, Diane remained Henry's lifelong companion...
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    portraits in her collection were by Jean Clouet (1480–1541) and his son François Clouet (c. 1510–1572). François Clouet drew and painted portraits of...
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    autres ministres sous les Regnes de François I., Henry II. et François II (in French). Vol. Tome second. Paris: François Clouzier. p. 518. J. P. Adams, Sede...
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