Pierre Rémond de Sainte-Albine

Pierre Rémond de Sainte-Albine (29 May 1699 – 9 October 1778) was an 18th-century French historian and playwright.

Pierre Rémond de Sainte-Albine
Born29 May 1699
Paris
Died9 October 1778(1778-10-09) (aged 79)
Paris
OccupationHistorian, playwright

He collaborated with L'Europe savante, the Gazette de France (1733–1749 and 1751) and the Mercure de France of which he was chief editor for a time.

Works
  • 1716: L'Amante difficile ou l'Amant constant, comedy in 5 acts and in prose, with Antoine Houdar de La Motte, presented at the Théâtre of the Hôtel de Bourgogne 17 October (impr. 1726, réimpr. 1729, 1732)
  • 1747: Le Comédien, 2 parts, (réimpr. 1749 and 1825]following Molé's Mémoires
  • 1749: La Convention téméraire, comedy in 1 act
  • 1749: L'Amour au village
  • 1759: Abrégé de l'Histoire de De Thou, with observations

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

Bibliography
  • Gloria Höckner: Der Gefühlsschauspieler – Eine Schauspieltheorie von Pierre Remond de Sainte-Albine. GRIN Verlag, München 2008, ISBN 978-3-640-11731-4
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Auszug aus dem „Schauspieler“ des Herrn Rémond von Sainte Albine., In: Theatralische Bibliothek, 1. Stück, Berlin: Christian Friederich Voss, 1754.
  • Pierre Rémond de Sainte-Albine: Le Comédien, in two volumes, Paris, 1747.
  • Peter Heßelmann: Gereinigtes Theater? - Dramaturgie und Schaubühne im Spiegel deutschsprachiger Theaterperiodika des 18. Jahrhunderts (1750–1800), Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann GmbH, 2002.
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