Louis Abel Beffroy de Reigny
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1757 – 1811
Who was Louis Abel Beffroy de Reigny?
Louis Abel Beffroy de Reigny, French dramatist and man of letters, was born at Laon, Aisne.
Under the name of "Cousin Jacques" he founded a periodical called Les Lunes. The Courrier des planetes ou Correspondance du Cousin Jacques avec le firmament followed. Nicodeme clans la Lune, ou la révolution pacifique a three-act farce, is said to have had more than four hundred representations.
In spite of his protests against the evils of the Revolution he escaped interference through the influence of his brother, Louis Etienne Beffroy, who was a member of the Convention.
Of La Petite Nanette and several other operas he wrote both the words and the music. His Dictionnaire neologique of the chief actors and events in the Revolution was interdicted by the police and remained incomplete. Beffroy spent his last years in retirement, dying in Paris on December 17, 1811.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed.. Encyclopædia Britannica. Cambridge University Press
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