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    Alexis Piron (9 July 1689 – 21 January 1773) was a French epigrammatist and dramatist. Alexis Piron was born in Dijon, where his father, Aimé Piron, was...
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  • Look up piron in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Piron may refer to: Alexis Piron (1689-1773), a French dramatist Armand J. Piron (1888-1943), a U.S....
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    his first tentative steps into composing stage music when the writer Alexis Piron asked him to provide songs for his popular comic plays written for the...
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    2019. Derek F. Connon, Identity and Transformation in the Plays of Alexis Piron, London 2007, pp.125-6 French language outline online "Image gallery:...
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  • Metromaniacs, his "translaptation" of a rediscovered French farce by Alexis Piron at The Duke on 42nd Street directed by Michael Kahn. In the early 1990s...
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    Montesquieu, Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, Pierre de Marivaux, Alexis Piron and others. Hers was the first of the Parisian literary salons which...
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    François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Alexis Piron, Charles Pinot Duclos, Claude-Adrien Helvétius, Charles-André van Loo...
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    after the cabaret where they were held) with other artists, including Alexis Piron, Charles Collé, and Charles Duclos. The publication of Tanzaï et Néadarné...
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    1st Baronet, of Ewell, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1711) January 21 – Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689) January 23 Manuel Pinto da Fonseca, 68th Grandmaster...
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    drama of Diderot and of Sedaine. The new method found bitter enemies. Alexis Piron nicknames the author "le Révérend Père Chaussée," and ridiculed him in...
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