François-Michel-Chrétien Deschamps
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François-Michel-Chrétien Deschamps (1683 near Troyes – 10 November 1747, Paris) was an 18th-century French playwright.
A cavalry lieutenant, later employed in finance, Deschamps wrote several tragedies, of which one, Caton d’Utique (1715), was successful; the others, Antiochus et Cléopâtre (1717), Artaxerxès (1735), Méduse (1739) weren't.
We also owe Deschamps Recherches sur le théâtre français (1735, 3 vol. in-8°).
Sources
- Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des littératures, Paris, Hachette, 1876, (p. 613)
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