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Born Jean-François DUCIS
French dramatist and adapter of Shakespeare
Born on August 22, 1733 in Versailles, France , France
Died on March 30, 1816 in Versailles, France
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In 1768, he produced his first tragedy, Anzlise. The failure of this first attempt was fully compensated by the success of his Hamlet (1769), and Roméo et Juliette (1772). Œdipe chez Admèle, imitated partly from Euripides and partly from Sophocles, appeared in 1778, and secured him in the following year the chair in the Academy left vacant by the death of Voltaire.
... Ducis was born in Versailles. His father, originally from Savoy, was a linen draper at Versailles; and all through life he retained the simple tastes and straightforward independence fostered by his bourgeois education.
In 1768, he produced his first tragedy, Anzlise. The failure of this first attempt was fully compensated by the success of his Hamlet (1769), and Roméo et Juliette (1772). Œdipe chez Admèle, imitated partly from Euripides and partly from Sophocles, appeared in 1778, and secured him in the following year the chair in the Academy left vacant by the death of Voltaire.
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