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'''François-Michel-Chrétien Deschamps''' (1683, near [[Troyes]] – 10 November 1747, Paris) was an 18th-century French playwright.
A cavalry lieutenant, later employed in finance, Deschamps wrote several tragedies, of which one, ''Caton d’Utique'' (1715), was successful; the others - ''Antiochus et Cléopâtre'' (1717), ''Artaxerxès'' (1735), ''Méduse'' (1739) - were not.
Deschamps also wrote ''Recherches sur le théâtre français'' (1735, 3 vol. in-8°).
== Sources ==
* [[Gustave Vapereau]], ''Dictionnaire universel des littératures'', Paris, Hachette, 1876, (p.&nbsp;613)
== External links ==
*[http://data.bnf.fr/13007978/francois-michel-chretien_deschamps/ François-Michel-Chrétien Deschamps] on [[Data.bnf.fr]]
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