Background
Antoine-Marin Lemierre was born in Paris on January 12, 1733. His parents were poor, but Lemierre found a patron in the collector-general of taxes, Dupin, whose secretary he became.
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Antoine-Marin Lemierre was born in Paris on January 12, 1733. His parents were poor, but Lemierre found a patron in the collector-general of taxes, Dupin, whose secretary he became.
Artaxerce, modelled on Metastasio, and Guillaume Tell were produced in 1766; other successful tragedies were La Veuve de Malabar (1770) and Barnavelt (1784). Lemierre revived Guillaume Tell in 1786 with enormous success. After the Revolution he professed great remorse for the production of a play inculcating revolutionary principles. Lemierre published La Peinturc (1769), based on a Latin poem by the abbe de Marsy, and a poem in six cantos, Les Fastes, ou les usages de Гаппёе (1779), an unsatisfactory imitation of Ovid's Fasti. His CEuvres (1810) contain a notice of Lemierre by R. Perrin, and his CEuvres choisies (1811) one by F. Fayolle.
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He had been admitted to the Academy in 1781.
