Name Germain-Francois de | Role Writer | |
Died August 25, 1776, Paris, France | ||
Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix (5 February 1698, Rennes – 25 August 1776) was a French writer and playwright.
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Life
He served with the musketeers until he was 36, distinguishing himself at Guastalla in 1734. He then left the army and purchased a post as "maitre des eaux et forets" in Rennes. He published his first comedy, Pandore, in 1721 and from 1740 devoted himself entirely to writing, setting up in Paris and becoming a fashionable author there. He wrote 20 comedies in all.
In 1764 he was made historian of the ordre du Saint-Esprit. He was the brother of the jurist Auguste-Marie Poullain-Duparc.
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