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Bernard le Bouvier de Fontenelle (1657–1757), whose unusual life span made him a living link between the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, appeared in minor roles in two of the plays discussed in Chapter III.1 He was pictured there as the young, elegant nephew of Pierre Corneille and as an entirely different character from the dignified mature man who appeared as the protagonist of a one-act comedy entitled Fontenelle. This rather dull dramatization by P.-A.-S. Petit and Joseph Servières was staged at the Théâtre des Jeunes Artistes on November 6, 1801.
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Joseph Pilhes, Le Bienfait anonyme (Paris: Didot, 1785).
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© 1969 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Kadler, E.H. (1969). Fontenelle, J.-B. Rousseau, Le Sage, Montesquieu, Diderot, Beaumarchais. In: Literary Figures in French Drama (1784–1834). International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idées, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3362-6_5
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