Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet

French politician, playwright and poet

Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1777

Place of Birth: Béziers, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 10-Jul-1868

Profession: writer, poet, politician, playwright, librettist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet (18 November 1777 – 10 July 1868) was a French politician, playwright and poet.
He was also a member of the Académie française and a prominent Freemason. His long career as a soldier then a politician, playwright and poet lasted through political revolutions and literary wars, and is full of incident and travels.
He had a talent for self-promotion within many regimes and got to know all political and literary dignitaries, all the while verging on impopularity.
He said "I have counted up to 500 epigrams a year against me; anyone who escapes college to join a soap-opera thinks I should have his first kick".
His name was like a red rag to a bull to Republicans and Romantics, but he avenged himself on his worst enemies by fables or epithets against them.



Alternative names	legal name: Gaspard-Félix Tournachon pseudonym: Nadar
Description	French photographer, caricaturist, writer and balloonist
Date of birth/death	6 April 1820	20 March 1910 / 21 March 1910
Location of birth/death	Paris	former 4th arrondissement of Paris
Work period	1854–1910
Work location	Paris
Authority control	: Q40116 VIAF: 84808952 ISNI: 0000 0001 2141 8535 ULAN: 500005199 LCCN: n50014563 NLA: 35553829 WorldCat