Pierre-Antoine Guéroult
French journalist and librettist
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| Intro | French journalist and librettist | |
| Places | France | |
| was | Writer Journalist Librettist Playwright | |
| Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio Journalism Literature Music | |
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| Birth | 16 January 1749, Rouen, arrondissement of Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy | |
| Death | 14 December 1816 (aged 67 years) |
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Pierre-Remy-Antoine-Guillaume Guéroult, called "Guéroult jeune", (16 January 1749, Rouen – 14 Décember 1816) was an 18th–19th-century French scholar.
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- 1790: Origine de la république une et indivisible, drama which he offered in homage to the National Constituent Assembly.
- 1802: Dictionnaire de la France monarchique, ou la France telle qu’elle était en janvier 1789 ; in-8° ;
- 1783–1789: t.VIII de la traduction des œuvres de Cicero (with his brother Guéroult aîné). This translation was directed by Jean-Marie-Bernard Clément and Jean-Nicolas Démeunier, 8 vol. in-12, ou 3 vol. 4°. The volume by the Guéroult brothers includes the Harangue sur les réponses des aruspices, that pour Sextus, the Plaidoyers pour Plancius et pour Celius, and the Invective contre Vatinius ;
- 1794: Constitution des Spartiates, des Athéniens et des Romains, in-8°. He left manuscripts of the transaltion of several Discours by Cicero and one opera, Étéocle et Polynice, non presented.
The year he died he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by King Louis XVIII of France.