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          Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

          French playwright and poet (–)

          For other uses, see Jean Baptiste Rousseau.

          Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (6 April – 17 March ) was a French playwright and poet, particularly noted for his cynical epigrams.[1]

          Biography

          Rousseau was born in Paris, the son of a shoemaker, and was well educated.

          As a young man, he gained favour with Boileau, who encouraged him to write. Rousseau began with the theatre, for which he had no aptitude.

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          6. A one-act comedy, Le Café, failed in , and he was not much happier with a more ambitious play, Le Flatteur (), or with the opera Venus et Adonis (). In he tried another comedy, Le Capricieux, which had the same fate.

          He then went with the duke of Tallard as an attaché to London, and, in days when literature still led to high position, seemed likely to achieve success.

          His misfortunes began with a club squabble at the Café Laurent, which was much frequented by literary men, and where he indulged in lampoons on h