Alexandre-Frédéric-Jacques Masson de Pezay
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Born27 April 1741
Died6 December 1777 (aged 36)
OccupationsSoldier
Courtesan
Man of letters and poet
Courtesan
Man of letters and poet
StyleRococo
Alexandre-Frédéric-Jacques Masson de Pezay | |
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| Born | 27 April 1741 |
| Died | 6 December 1777 (aged 36) |
| Occupations | Soldier Courtesan Man of letters and poet |
| Style | Rococo |
Alexandre-Frédéric-Jacques Masson, marquis[2] de Pezay, (27 April 1741 – 6 December 1777) was an 18th-century French soldier, courtier and man of letters.[3]
- 1768: Zélis au bain, Paris, 1763, 1766, in-8. This poem, in four books, was written with enough natural but in a too free tone; the author, who worked ceaselessly his works, reworked it, changed the outcome and added two songs (la Nouvelle Zélis au bain, Geneva, in-8).
- 1764: Le Pot-pourri, épître à qui on voudra, Paris, Sébastien Jorry.
- 1764: Lettre d'Alcibiade à Glicère, Paris, Sébastien Jorry, in-12.
- 1767: Lettre d'Ovide à Julie, in-8.
- 1767: Suite des Bagatelles anonymes (by Dorat), Paris, in-8.
- 1770: La Closière ou le Vin nouveau, opéra comique, Paris, in-8.
- 1771: Éloge de Fénelon, Paris, in-8.
- 1771: Les Soirées helvétiennes, alsaciennes et franc-comtoises, Paris, in-8; London, 1772, 2 vol. in-12.
- 1771: Les Tableaux, followed by Histoire de Mlle de Syanne et du comte de Marcy, Paris, in-8;
- 1771: Traduction en prose de Catullus, Tibullus and Gallus, Paris, 1771, 1794, 2 vol. in-8 et in-12.
- 1773: La Rosière de Salenci, opéra lyrique, Paris, in-8. The music by Grétry made the success of this work.
- 1775: Histoire des campagnes de Maillebois en Italie en 1745 et 1746, Paris, 3 vol. in-4 and atlas.
- 1775: Journal militaire ou relation détaillée des campagnes de M. le maréchal de Maillebois en Italie: précédé et suivi d'un précis historique de cette guerre.
A selection of his Œuvres was published (Liège, 1791, 2 vol. in-12), preceded by a historical and literary note. Masson de Pezay also contributed articles to the Encyclopédie by Diderot and D'Alembert.
