Jean-Marie Bernard Clement ( Fr. Jean-Marie-Bernard Clément , often Fr. Clément de Dijon , that is, Dijon; December 25, 1742 , Dijon - February 3, 1812 , Paris ) - French writer .
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Biography
He studied philosophy at Dijon College, then went to Paris, where he was patronized by Mably .
In 1771 he published his first work - a review of the translation of the “George” of Virgil by Abbe Delille ( Fr. Observations critiques sur la nouvelle traduction en vers françois des Géorgiques de Virgile, et de les poèmes des Saisons, de la Déclamation et de la Peinture ), the only negative of all sounded.
Later, participation in the literary controversy brought Clement most famous: his attacks on Voltaire (a total of Clement wrote nine articles against him for nine years) forced Voltaire to call him "unmerciful" ( fr. L'inclément is a pun: the name of Clement by French means "merciful"). The general idea of Clement-Criticism was that the ancient classics are magnificent, and modern writers are extremely bad.
In addition to critical articles, Clement spoke a lot as a translator: he published translations into French of "The Liberated Jerusalem" by Tasso ( 1801 ), three volumes from the collected works of Cicero ( 1783 - 1789 ), "Leucippus and Clitofon" by Achilles Tatia ( 1800 ). Clement also owns the tragedy Medea ( 1779 ) and Satire 1786 . In collaboration with Joseph de Laporte, he published a collection of Stories in Theaters ( fr. Anecdotes dramatiques ; 1775 ), a kind of dictionary-reference book on theater and dramaturgy of his epoch.
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- ↑ 1 2 3 BNF ID : 2011 open data platform .