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Louis-Sébastien Mercier was born on June 6, 1740, in Paris, France, to a humble family: his father was a skilled artisan, who polished swords and metal arms.
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Louis-Sébastien Mercier was born on June 6, 1740, in Paris, France, to a humble family: his father was a skilled artisan, who polished swords and metal arms.
Mercier received a decent education.
Mercier wrote about 60 plays, including a social comedy, La Brouette du vinaigrier (1775; "The Barrel-load of the Vinegar Merchant"); Jenneval (published 1767; performed 1781), adapted from George Lillo’s London Merchant (1731); such dramas as Le Faux Ami (1772; "The False Friend") and the antimilitarist Le Déserteur (published 1770, performed 1782; "The Deserter"); and two historical dramas about the French religious wars, Jean Hennuyer évêque de Lisieux (1772; "Jean Hennuyer, Bishop of Lisieux") and La Destruction de la ligue (1782; "The Destruction of the League"), which were so anticlerical and antimonarchical that they were not performed until after the French Revolution. Mercier also wrote a work of prophetic imagination, L’An 2440 (1770; "The Year 2440"), and Le Tableau de Paris (2 vol. , 1781; 12 vol. , 1782–1789; "The Tableau of Paris"), a work that classifies social types in a way that foreshadows the novels of Honoré de Balzac.
Louis-Sébastien Mercier died on April 25, 1814, in Paris.
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In politics Louis-Sébastien Mercier was a moderate, and, as he belonged to the Convention, he voted against the death penalty for Louis XVI
Quotations: "The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered of enabling us to eat more and to eat better, as also to digest more rapidly. .. .The new cookery is conductive to health, to good temper, and to long life. .. .Who could enumerate all the dishes of the new cuisine? It is an absolutely new idiom. I have tasted viands prepared in so many ways and fashioned with such art that I could not imagine what they were. "
Louis-Sébastien Mercier was a member of the National Convention.