Antoine Vieillard de Boismartin

Antoine Vieillard de Boismartin (1747 – 13 January 1815) was a French lawyer and playwright. Before the French Revolution, Vieillard de Boismartin was a lawyer at parlement de Rouen. He later held several political and judicial positions, including three times mayor of Saint-Lô. The father of poet and critic Pierre-Ange Vieillard, Vieillard de Boismartin was a member of the Légion d’honneur.

Publications Theatre Almanzor, tragedy in five acts and in verse, with Jacques Joseph Marie Decroix, Rouen, Behourt, 1771, in-8°. Blanchard, ou le Siège de Rouen, tragedy in five acts and in verse, Rouen, 1777, in-8°, presented on stage, with large changes, at the end of 1792, and preinted again, Saint-Lô, P.-F. Gomont, 1793, in-8°. Théramène, ou Athènes sauvée, tragedy in five acts and in verse, Saint-Lô, P.F. Gomont, an v, in-8°. Law Lettre écrite par un avocat, soldat citoyen, à ses enfants, au sujet de la révolution, Paris, Cailleau, 1789, in-8°. Mémoire justificatif pour Jacques Verdure père, Marie-Marguerite, Marie-Madeleine, Jacques Sénateur et Pierre Verdure, ses enfants, tous accusés de parricide et prisonniers ès prison de la conciergerie du Palais, Rouen, Pierre Seyer, 1787, in-8° de 144 p.