Louis de Boissy
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Louis de Boissy
Louis de Boissy (26 November 1694, Vic-sur-Cère – 19 April 1758, Paris) was a French writer. He was elected to seat 6 of the Académie française on 12 August 1754. He wrote satires and several comedies, of which the best[clarification needed] is Les Dehors trompeurs ou l'Homme du jour (The False Appearances, or the Man of the Moment), the “hit” of the 1740 season, with a cast including Quinault-Dufresne and Jeanne Quinault. Boissy had the concession to print the Mercure de France. His son was Louis Michel de Boissy.
Works
His works were published in 9 volumes in-8 in Paris in 1766.[1]
- L'Impatient (1724)
- Le Babillard (The Chatterbox, 1725) Text online
- Le Français à Londres (The Frenchman in London, 1727)
- L'Époux par supercherie (The Husband by Trickery, 1744)
References
- ↑ * His plays and their productions on CESAR This site mentions sixty plays by Boissy. Not all were produced or published.
