Jean-Baptiste de Milcent, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French journalist
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Place of Birth: Paris, ĂŽle-de-France, France
About Jean-Baptiste de Milcent
- Jean-Baptiste Gabriel Marie de Milcent (28 June 1747, Paris 1833, Paris) was a French playwright and journalist. Raised by the Jesuits, he directed the Journal d'agriculture for twenty years.
- On 5 January 1785, he established the Journal ou Annales de Normandie, biweekly until 30 Decembre 1789, which he renamed the Journal de Normandie, ou de Rouen 18 June 1790 and which appeared three times a week until October 31, 1790, then daily from November 1790 to 11 May 1791.
- Returning to Paris at the outbreak of the Revolution, he became secretary of the Académie royale de musique in 1795. Familiar with Diderot, d’Alembert and Marie-Thérèse Geoffrin, he composed lyrical tragedies, some of which, such as Les Deux Statues, had a great success.. He was a member of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen.
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