Antoine Vieillard de Boismartin

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Died 1815

Antoine Vieillard de Boismartin, (1747 in Paris – 13 January 1815 in Saint-Lô) was a French lawyer and playwright.

Before the French Revolution, Vieillard de Boismartin was a lawyer at parlement de Rouen. He later held several political and judicial positions, including three times mayor of Saint-Lô.

The father of poet and critic Pierre-Ange Vieillard, Vieillard de Boismartin was a member of the Légion d’honneur.

Publications

Theatre

Almanzor, tragedy in five acts and in verse, with Decroix, Rouen, Behourt, 1771, in-8°.

Blanchard, ou le Siège de Rouen, tragedy in five acts and in verse, Rouen, 1777, in-8°, presented on stage, with large changes, at the end of 1792, and preinted again, Saint-Lô, P.-F. Gomont, 1793, in-8°.

Théramène, ou Athènes sauvée, tragedy in five acts and in verse, Saint-Lô, P.F. Gomont, an v, in-8°.

Law

Lettre écrite par un avocat, soldat citoyen, à ses enfants, au sujet de la révolution, Paris, Cailleau, 1789, in-8°.

Mémoire justificatif pour Jacques Verdure père, Marie-Marguerite, Marie-Madeleine, Jacques Sénateur et Pierre Verdure, ses enfants, tous accusés de parricide et prisonniers ès prison de la conciergerie du Palais, Rouen, Pierre Seyer, 1787, in-8° de 144 p.

References

Antoine Vieillard de Boismartin Wikipedia

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