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Jean-François Marmontel was born on July 11, 1723, at Bort-les-Orgues, France.
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PENELOPE, by Jean-François Marmontel, tells the story of Ulysses' return to Ithaca after his long journey home from Troy, and how he takes revenge on the boorish suitors of his wife, Penelope, who have browbeaten her for years. The freshness and charm of this French dramatization is remarkable.
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Jean-François Marmontel was born on July 11, 1723, at Bort-les-Orgues, France.
Marmontel studied with the Jesuits at Mauriac.
Then he taught in their colleges at Clermont-Ferrand and Toulouse.
In 1745, encouraged by Voltaire, Marmontel settled in Paris. He composed tragedies in the manner of Voltaire and libretti of operas for composers Jean-Philippe Rameau, André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry, Niccolò Piccinni, and Luigi Cherubini. His Contes moraux (1761; "Moral Stories") are more original. He first published them separately in the Mercure de France, which he edited between 1758 and 1760. Sentimental, edifying, and superficially elegant in content and style, these tales were widely appreciated and imitated. The publication of two philosophical romances, Bélisaire (1767) and Les Incas (1777), considerably enhanced his reputation. The first was condemned by the Sorbonne because of its plea for religious toleration; the second denounced the evils of fanaticism.
Marmontel derived from Voltaire the brand of liberal Classicism he expounded in his Éléments de littérature (1787; "Elements of Literature") and in articles for the Encyclopédie. He was elected to the Académie Française in 1763 and became its permanent secretary in 1783. He was appointed royal historiographer in 1771. During the Revolution he retired to the country, where he wrote Mémoires d’un père ("Memoirs of a Father"), published posthumously in 1804.
Jean-François Marmontel died on December 31, 1799.
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Quotations: "If one does not possess what one loves, one should love what one has. "
Jean-François Marmontel became a member of the Académie Française in 1763. In addition, he was a member of the Encyclopédistes movement.
He was a member of the Masonic lodge Les Neuf Sœurs.