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Jean-François-Henri Collot

1716 – 1804

French librettist and writer

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Lived 1716 – 1804 (aged 88). Jean-François-Henri Collot was a French librettist, writer, playwright and encyclopédistes.

Jean-François-Henri Collot (Pont-d’Arches, near Charleville-Mézières 26 January 1716 – October 1804 in Mesnil, near Châlons-sur-Marne) was an 18th-century French intellectual and encyclopédiste.

Collot devoted to the cultivation of letters the leisure that allowed him the occupation of commissary of war, a position that he filled successively in Grenoble, Rennes and Nancy.

André-Joseph Collot was his brother.

Publications Mémoire sur les invalides, in Encyclopédie by Diderot, entry « invalides ». Collot proposes to distribute in rural communities invalids yet ready to marry and make their marriage a duty in order to repopulate the countryside. Mémoire sur la vie parmi les troupes, écrit de façon à être lu dans un couvent de religieuses, 1769, in-8°. Satires en vers sur les innovations dans le ministère, Bâle, 1774, in-8°. L’Officier français à l’armée, opéra comique mixed with ariettes, Grenoble, 1780, in-8°. Épître à M. Gellée, médecin à Châlons, en vers, dans l’Annuaire du département de la Marne, année 1803.

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French librettist and writer

When was Jean-François-Henri Collot born?

Jean-François-Henri Collot was born on 26 January 1716.

When did Jean-François-Henri Collot die?

Jean-François-Henri Collot died on 4 November 1804 in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger.

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Jean-François-Henri Collot was a librettist, writer, playwright and encyclopédistes.

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Jean-François-Henri Collot was French.

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· Wikipedia: Jean-François-Henri Collot

· Wikidata: Q3165396

· DBpedia: Jean-François-Henri Collot

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