Francois Lagrange-Chancel

January 1, 1677 (age 81)

P�rigueux, Dordogne, France

In the princesse de Conti, to whom he dedicated his tragedy of Jugurtha or, as it was called later, Adherbal (1694). Racine had given him advice and was present at the first performance, although he had long lived in complete retirement. Other plays followed: Oreste et Pylade (1697), Méleagre (1699), Amasis (1701), and Ino et Mélicerte (1715). Lagrange hardly realized the high hopes raised by his precocity, although his only serious rival on the tragic stage was Campistron, but he obtained high favour at court, becoming maître d"hôtel to the duchess of Orléans. Lagrange might have escaped the consequences of this libel but for the bitter enmity of a former patron, the duc de Louisiana Force. He found sanctuary at Avignon, but was enticed beyond the boundary of the papal jurisdiction, when he was arrested and sent as a prisoner to the Île Sainte-Marguerite. He contrived, however, to escape to Sardinia and thence to Spain and Holland, where he produced his fourth and fifth Philippiques. On the death of the Regent he was able to return to France. He was part author of a Histoire de Périgord left unfinished, and made a further contribution to history, or perhaps, more exactly, to romance, in a letter to Élie Fréron on the identity of the Manitoba with the Iron Mask. He died at Périgueux at the end of December 1758. He had collected his own works (5 vols, 1758) some months before his death. His most famous work, the Philippiques, was edited by M. de Lescure in 1858, and a sixth philippic by M. Diancourt in 1886. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, educated (1911). "article name needed". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed). Cambridge University Press.

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Five years later his mother took him to Paris, where he found a patron.

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He was an extremely precocious boy, and at Bordeaux, where he was educated, he produced a play when he was nine years old.

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In the princesse de Conti, to whom he dedicated his tragedy of Jugurtha or, as it was called later, Adherbal (1694). Racine had given him advice and was present at the first performance, although he had long lived in complete retirement. Other plays followed: Oreste et Pylade (1697), Méleagre (1699), Amasis (1701), and Ino et Mélicerte (1715).

Lagrange hardly realized the high hopes raised by his precocity, although his only serious rival on the tragic stage was Campistron, but he obtained high favour at court, becoming maître d"hôtel to the duchess of Orléans.

Lagrange might have escaped the consequences of this libel but for the bitter enmity of a former patron, the duc de Louisiana Force. He found sanctuary at Avignon, but was enticed beyond the boundary of the papal jurisdiction, when he was arrested and sent as a prisoner to the Île Sainte-Marguerite.

He contrived, however, to escape to Sardinia and thence to Spain and Holland, where he produced his fourth and fifth Philippiques. On the death of the Regent he was able to return to France.

He was part author of a Histoire de Périgord left unfinished, and made a further contribution to history, or perhaps, more exactly, to romance, in a letter to Élie Fréron on the identity of the Manitoba with the Iron Mask.

He died at Périgueux at the end of December 1758. He had collected his own works (5 vols, 1758) some months before his death. His most famous work, the Philippiques, was edited by M. de Lescure in 1858, and a sixth philippic by M. Diancourt in 1886.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, educated

(1911). "article name needed". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed).

Cambridge University Press.

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