François-Michel-Chrétien Deschamps

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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. 613)

External links

• François-Michel-Chrétien Deschamps on Data.bnf.fr