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'Antoine-Marin Lemierre' (January 12, 1733 - July 4, 1793), was a French dramatist and poet.
He was born in Paris, into a poor family, but
found a patron in the collector-general of taxes, Dupin, whose secretary he became. Lemierre gained his first success on the stage with ''Hypermnestre'' (1758); ''Titre'' (1761) and ''Idomne'' (1764) failed on account of the subjects. ''Artaxerce'', modelled on ''Metastasio'', and ''Guillaume Tell'' were produced in 1766; other successful tragedies were ''La Veuve de Malabar'' (1770) and ''Barnavelt'' (1784). He was admitted to the Académie Française in 1780.
Lemierre revived ''Guillaume Tell'' in 1786 with enormous success. After the French Revolution he professed great remorse for the production of a play inculcating revolutionary principles, and there is no doubt that the horror of the excesses he witnessed hastened his death. Lemierre published ''La Peinture'' (1769), based on a Latin poem by the abbé de Marsy, and a poem in six cantos. ''Les Fastes, ou les usages de lannie'' (779), an unsatisfactory imitation of Ovid's ''Fasti''.
His ''Œuvres'' (1810) contain a notice of Lemierre by R Perrin. and his ''Œuvres choisies'' (1811) one by FJM Fayolle.

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