Étienne Aignan

Étienne Aignan (9 April 1773 – 21 June 1824) was a French translator, political writer, librettist and playwright born in Beaugency, Loiret.

In 1814 he was made a member of the Académie française, replacing Bernardin de Saint-Pierre in Seat 27.

Works

a verse translation of the Iliad,
translations of Pope, Goldsmith, and Elisa Hervey,
the play La mort de Louis XVI: tragédie en trois actes (Paris 1793) covering the trial and execution of King Louis XVI,
librettos for the operas Maria Seski (1799), Nephtali, ou les Ammonites by Blangini (Ballard, Paris 1806), and the Arthurian Arthus de Bretagne,
The Condition of the Protestants in France (1818) and
Histoire du jury (A. Eymery, Paris 1822).

References

Académie française Étienne Aignan page (in French)
Full images of all pages for La mort de Louis XVI: ... in the University of Florida Digital Collections
University of Maryland copy of La mort de Louis XVI: ...
Arthurian operas
Château d'Oron library search (in French)
Dates (in French)

External links

Works by or about Étienne Aignan at Internet Archive

Académie française Seat 27

Abel Servien (1634)
Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer (1659)
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1691)
Antoine-Louis Séguier (1757)
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1803)
Étienne Aignan (1814)
Alexandre Soumet (1824)
Ludovic Vitet (1845)
Elme Marie Caro (1874)
Gabriel Paul Othenin de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville (1888)
Auguste-Armand de la Force (1925)
Joseph Kessel (1962)
Michel Droit (1980)
Pierre Nora (2001)

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