hou00450 Laignelot, Joseph François, 1752-1829. Joseph François Laignelot plays (MS Fr 348): Guide. 01/27/2002 David Clough 11/07/2013 Loaded into OASIS 12/20/2002 Diane Booton June 8, 2006 hou00450 converted by Harvard University Library OIS from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2006-06-08). MS Fr 348 Laignelot, Joseph François, 1752-1829. Joseph François Laignelot plays: Guide. Houghton Library, Harvard College Library

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Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University MS Fr 348 Laignelot, Joseph François, 1752-1829. Joseph François Laignelot plays, 1778-1829. 1 volume (.1 linear ft.) Collection materials are in French. Compositions by the French dramatist Joseph Laignelot.

*81M-48. Purchased with the Duplicates fund from Librairie Garnier-Arnoul 39, rue de Seine, Paris 75006 France; received: 1981 July.

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Joseph Laignelot was a French dramatist, elected deputy to the Paris Convention after the French Revolution. Re-editing one of his pre-Revolutionary theatrical pieces led to his threats of exile.

Contains printed and autograph copies of his play, Agis, tragédie en cinq actes et en vers and Rienzi, tragédie en cinq actes et en vers. Also includes police documents ordering his banishment from Paris, and printed eulogy upon his death.

 Grand, Pierre, 1802-1883. Discours prononce...sur la tombe de Mr Laignelot...le 24 juillet 1829. Printed D.; [Paris, ca. Aug 1829]. 2f.(3p.)

Contained in a document describing the events which led to the suspension of Grand's privileges by the Conseil de discipline des avocats a la Cour Royale de Paris, for having pronounced this "Discours."

Paris. Préfecture de police. 2 MS.D.s. (by Piis); [Paris, 31 Oct - 3 Nov 1800]. 3f.(3p.)

Ordering Joseph François Laignelot to exile outside of Paris.

Laignelot, Joseph François, 1750-1829. Agis, tragédie en cinq actes et en vers. Paris, 1782. Laignelot, Joseph François, 1750-1829. Agis, tragédie... A.MS.; [Paris, ca. 1778]. 56f.(102p.)

Working draft. Last page includes A.D.s. by Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard and A.D. s. by Jean-Jacques, comte Lenoir-La Roche giving permissions for the printing and performance of Agis; Paris, 24 Aug 1778.

Laignelot, Joseph François, 1750-1829. [Défense of Rienzi]. A.MS.; [Paris, 22 Oct 1804]. 5f.(9p.)

Includes Laignelot's MS. copy of the "Rapport" of Louis Nicolas Pierre Joseph, comte Dubois concerning the play.

Laignelot, Joseph François, 1750-1829. Rienzi, tragédie en cinq actes et en vers... Paris [1804].