biography
pronunciation:
[peerõ]
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| lived:
| (1689–1773)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Dijon, E France, the son of the Burgundian poet Aimé Piron (1640–1727). He studied law, went to Paris in 1719, and worked as a copyist. He gained success with Arlequin-Deucalion and other pieces written for the popular Théâtres de la Foire. The comedy La Métromanie (1738) remains his best play, and was revived at the Comédie-Française until well into the 19th-c. King Louis XV did not ratify his election to the Académie Française in 1753 because of a licentious work written in his youth. Piron commented on this with the celebrated epigram on his tomb, ‘Ci-gît Piron qui ne fut rien \ pas même académicien’. |
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