Claude Joseph Dorat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Claude Joseph Dorat

French writer

Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1734

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 29-Apr-1780

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, journalist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Claude Joseph Dorat (31 December 1734 – 29 April 1780) was a French writer, also known as Le Chevalier Dorat. He was born in Paris, of a family consisting of generations of lawyers, and he joined the corps of the king's musketeers.
He became fashionable for his work, Réponse d'Abélard à Héloise ("Abelard's Answer to Heloise"), and followed up this first success with a number of heroic epistles, Les Victimes de l'amour, ou lettres de quelques amants célébres (1776) ("Victims of Love, or Letters from some famous lovers"). Besides light verse he wrote comedies, fables and, among other novels, Les Sacrifices de lamour, ou lettres de la vicomtesse de Senanges et du chevalier de Versenay (1771).
He tried to cover his failures as a dramatist by buying up large numbers of seats for performances, and his books were lavishly illustrated by good artists and expensively produced, in order to secure their success.
Nevertheless, he managed to attract hatred both of the philosophe party as well as of their arch-enemy, Charles Palissot de Montenoy, and thus cut himself off from the possibility of academic honours.
Le Tartufe littéraire (1774) attacked La Harpe and Palissot, and at the same time D'Alembert and Mlle de Lespinasse.



Alternative names	Augustin Saint-Aubin; A. de S. Aubin; a. de st. aubin; Augustin De Saint-Aubin; Auguste de Saint-Aubin; augustin de saint-aubin
Description	French engraver brother of Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin brother of Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
Date of birth/death	3 January 1736	9 November 1807
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Work location	Paris
Authority control	: Q586091 VIAF: 2540710 ISNI: 0000 0000 8081 9139 ULAN: 500015068 LCCN: n97863306 NLA: 35753441 WorldCat



Alternative names	Dominique Vivant Denon, Vivant Denon, Dominique Vivant, baron Denon
Description	French painter and engraver
Date of birth/death	4 January 1747	27 April 1825
Location of birth/death	Givry	Paris
Work location	Switzerland (1775); Austria (1809); Munich (1809); Paris (1764–1773); Russia (1773–1774); Paris (1775–1777); Italy (1777–1779); Naples (1779–1785); Paris (1785–1788); Venice (1788–1793); Paris (1793–1798); Egypt (1798–1799); Paris (1799–1805); Europe (1805–1815); Germany (1806–1807); Spain (1808–1809); Rome (1811–1815); Paris (1815–1825)
Authority control	: Q468618 VIAF: 64021324 ISNI: 0000 0001 2280 9116 ULAN: 500032492 LCCN: n81007122 NLA: 35245614 WorldCat