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Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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pronunciation:
[shãfaw(r)]
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| Playwright and conversationalist, born in Clermont, N France. A commoner, his brilliant studies distinguished him, and he gained honours for his remarkable epigrams. His Maximès, Pensèes, Caractères et Anecdotes (1795) were published after his death following a suicide attempt while in prison during the French Revolution. He penned the slogan ‘Guerre aux cháteaux, paix aux chaumières’, but annoyed the Revolutionaries with the same frivolity ‘Sois mon frère, où je te tue!’. Elected to the Académie Française in 1781, he inspired Mirabeau in his speech for the supression of such institutions (1791). It is his rejection of systems that Nietzsche would later admire. |
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