for measurements at noon which was later constructed along with Claude Antoine Couplet who also married Buot's step daughter Marie Baillot. He married...

A trente ans, ou une femme raisonnable, comedy in 3 acts mingled with couplets, with Joseph-Bernard Rosier 1840: Bonaventure, comédie-vaudeville in 3...

uses five-beat lines with a varying number of syllables and a regular couplet rhyming scheme, in other words, a sprung rhythm. Although he sustains the...

Farceur de société, ou les Suites d'une parade, play in 2 acts, mingled with couplets, with Rochefort 1828: Les Omnibus, ou la Revue en voiture, vaudeville en...

The Henriade was written in imitation of Virgil, using the alexandrine couplet reformed and rendered monotonous for modern readers but it was a huge success...

written by Chrétien de Troyes) were usually written in octosyllabic rhymed couplets. Medieval French lyric poetry was indebted to the poetic and cultural traditions...

Péchantré, ou une scène de tragédie, comédie-anecdote in 1 act, mingled with couplets, Paris, Théâtre des Variétés, 5 October 1812. Catalogue de la Bibliothèque...

Claude Boyer, Michel Le Clerc, Jacques Pradon, Jean Galbert de Campistron, Jean de La Chapelle, Antoine d'Aubigny de la Fosse, l'abbé Charles-Claude Geneste...

Pierre Antoine Jean-Baptiste Villiers (10 March 1760 – Paris, 21 July 1849) became a French playwright, journalist and poet. Already a chevalier of the...

out the original forty lines of the Latin author to 140 in octosyllabic couplets. While many French illustrations of this popular story portray the cobbler...