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Florian, Jean-Pierre-Clarie de

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Also known as: French: Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

FLORIAN, JEAN-PIERRE-CLARIE de. - French writer, b. at Sauve on 6 March 1755, d. at Sceaux on 13 Sept. 1794.

In 1782 he published the comedy Les deux billets, followed by Le bon ménage, Le bon père, La bonne mère, Le bon fils. He also wrote Six nouvelles (1784) and the well-known historical novels Numa Pompilius (1786) and Guesalve de Cardone (1791). The two prose pastorals Galatée (1783) and Estelle (1788) are, together with the Fables (1792), with their moral basis, his best works. The two biblical poems Ruth and Tobie are also his.

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BIBL.: C. A. Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, III, Paris 1852, pp. 229-48; L. Claret, F., ibid. 1862; G. Saillard, F. su vie, son oeuvre, Toulouse 1912.

Elena Bosticco

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), col. 1454.

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Bosticco, Elena. “Florian, jean-pierre-clarie de.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, col. 1454. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/florian-jean-pierre-clarie-de.

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Bosticco, Elena. “Florian, jean-pierre-clarie de.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 1454. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/florian-jean-pierre-clarie-de.

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  title     = {Florian, jean-pierre-clarie de},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
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