biography
| name: |
Sedaine, Michel-Jean
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pronunciation:
[suhden]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1719–97)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Paris, France. The son of a mason, and a stonemason himself, he published a collection of verse (1752) and wrote light opera librettos (1756). Ruined financially by the Revolution, he was forced to leave the Académie Française, having been elected there in 1786. His most lasting work is the play Le Philosophe sans le savoir (1765), a domestic comedy in the drame bourgeois genre which presents an idealized sentimental view of middle-class life and values. |
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