PHILIPPE NERICAULT DESTOUCHES
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A French dramatist (1680-1754); born at Tours. His poetical talents won him the patronage of the Duke of Orleans, and he was employed on a diplomatic mission to England. His comedy "The Boaster" (1732) is a masterpiece in matter, in elaboration, and in character delineation; Lessing classes that work, with its companion piece "The Spendthrift" (1736), as "models of the finer high comedy". Hardly inferior to these is "The Married Philosopher" (1727), largely based on the the author's own life.
By Charles Dudley Warner
