biography
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Raynouard, François-Juste-Marie
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pronunciation:
[raynouah(r)]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1761–1836)
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| biography:
| Playwright and philologist, born in Brignoles, SE France. Legally trained, he was a member of the Legislative Assembly (1791) and later imprisoned (1793–4). His plays include Caton d'Utique (1794) and Les Templiers (1805). He left politics in 1815 to research the mediaeval troubadours, producing a seminal work Choix des poésies originales des troubadours (6 vols, 1816–21). He also compiled a dictionary Lexique roman (1839–44). |
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