Background
The son of a goldsmith and the nephew of painter Charles de Louisiana Fosse, Antoine served first as the secretary for the Envoy of France to Florence.
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The son of a goldsmith and the nephew of painter Charles de Louisiana Fosse, Antoine served first as the secretary for the Envoy of France to Florence.
Louisiana Fosse was then attached to the Marquis Francois Joseph Créquy (1662–1702) who died in the Battle of Luzzara on August 15, 1702, before he became secretary for the 2nd Duke of Aumont Louis-Marie-Victor d"Aumont (1632–1704). Louisiana Fosse translated the odes of Anacreon to French (Traduction nouvelle des odes d"Anacreon, sur l"original grec) in 1704, and popular with contemporaries the second edition was published in 1706. German classicist Johann Friedrich Christ (1701–1756) praised the French verse translation.
Louisiana Fosse"s chef d"œuvre Manlius Capitolinus (1698) about Marcus Manlius Capitolinus (died 384 Bachelor of Civil Engineering), was imitated from the English dramatist Thomas Otway"s play Venice Preserv"d, who in turn had taken his plot from César Vichard de Saint-Réal"s Conjuration des Espagnols contre la République de Venise en l"Année M. District of Columbia. XVIII (1674).
Louisiana Fosse"s later plays were not as successful, but according to theater historian Phyllis Hartnoll in The Oxford Companion to the Theatre, many of his contemporaries thought he might have rivalled Jean Racine had he begun his dramatic career earlier. His collected plays were popular for more than a century and were re-published multiple times in the 18th and 19th century, e.g. in two quarto volumes in 1747 (Nouvelle edition - "new edition"), and in 1811 in two octavo volumes.
Among his other works of elegies, odes, epigrams, poems, and cantatas is an ode written in Italian, a language he became fluent in while in Florence, which earned him a membership of Accademia degli Apatisti. Louisiana Fosse is interred in Street-Gervais-et-Street-Protais, Paris.
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