Desfontaines-Lavallée

François-Georges Fouques Deshayes (1733, Caen - 25 November 1825, Paris), known as Desfontaines or Desfontaines-Lavallée, was a French writer and playwright

Before the French Revolution he worked as a royal censor, secretary and librarian. He cooperated in the publication of the Nouvelle Bibliothèque des romans (New Library of Novels) and wrote several novels himself, including Lettres de Sophie et du chevalier de *** (1765).

Alone or in co-operation with Yves Barré and Jean-Baptiste Radet, he put on several plays, including :

• L'Aveugle de Palmyre (1767)
• La Cinquantaine (1771)
• Isménor (1773)
• Le Mai (1776)
• L'Amant statue (1780)
• Le Droit du seigneur (1783)
• La Dot (1785)
• Vert-vert (1790)
• Arlequin afficheur (1792)
• La Chaste Suzanne (1793)
• La Fête de l'Égalité (1794)
• Le Rêve, ou la Colonne de Rosback (1806)
• M. Durelief (1810)

He was one of the founders of the Dîners du Vaudeville and of the Dîners du Caveau.

External links

• His plays and their productions on CESAR

Source

• Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des littératures, Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 615-6

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Name	Desfontaines
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Date of birth	1733
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Date of death	25 November 1825
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