Abbé de La Marre

The abbé de La Marre (or La Mare) (Quimper, 1708 – Bavaria, 1742) was an 18th-century French homme de lettres.[1] Voltaire was interested in him and gave him some literary works to do. He was a member of the Société du bout du banc hosted by Mlle Quinault.

Works
  • 1736: L'Ennui d'un quart d'heure
  • 1736: Remarks on La Mort de César by Voltaire
  • 1739: Le Je ne sais quoi de vingt minutes, poems
  • 1739: Zaïde, reine de Grenade, ballet héroïque, music by Joseph Nicolas Pancrace Royer, given at the Académie royale de musique on 3 September
  • 1739: Momus amoureux, one-act ballet, presented on 27 October
  • 1753: With Antoine Houdar de La Motte, argument de Titon et l'Aurore, pastorale héroïque, libretto by Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon, music by Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, premiered at the Académie royale de musique on 9 January
  • 1766: Les Quarts d'heure d'un joyeux solitaire, (attr. ; reimp. 1882 under the title Contes de l'abbé de La Marre, les Quarts d'heure d'un joyeux solitaire)

Bibliography
  • Cardinal Georges Grente (dir.), Dictionnaire des lettres françaises. Le XVIIIe siècle, nlle. édition revue et mise à jour sous la direction de François Moureau, Paris, Fayard, 1995.

References
  1. Antoine de Léris says he committed suicide in 1746 at Cheb in Bohemia (Dictionnaire des théâtres, 1763, p. 608).
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