PIGAULT-LEBRUN
\pˈɪɡɒltlˈɛbɹʌn], \pˈɪɡɒltlˈɛbɹʌn], \p_ˈɪ_ɡ_ɒ_l_t_l_ˈɛ_b_ɹ_ʌ_n]\
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pseudonym of Antoine P. de L'Epinoy. A French novelist and dramatist; born at Calais, April 8, 1753; died at La Celle Saint Cloud, July 24, 1835. He wrote more than 70 volumes of stories, among them "The Child of the Carnival" (1792), "The Barons of Felsheim" (1798), "Spanish Madness" (1801); and several comedies, as "The Pessimist" (1789), "Rivals of Themselves" (1798), "Love and Reason" (1799). He wrote also "Literary and Critical Miscellanies" (2 vols., 1816).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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Platidiam
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