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Julien Louis GeoffroyJulien Louis Geoffroy (1743 - February 27, 1814), was a French literary critic. He was born at Rennes, and educated there and at the Collge Louis le Grand in Paris. He took orders and for some time was a mere usher, eventually becoming professor of rhetoric at the Collge Mazarin. His tragedy, Caton, was accepted at the Thtre Franais, but was never performed. On the death of lie Frron in 1776 the other collaborators in the Anne littraire asked Geoffroy to succeed him, and he conducted the journal until its closure in 1792. Geoffroy was a bitter critic of Voltaire and his followers, and made for himself many enemies. An enthusiastic royalist, he published, with Frron's brother-in-law, the abb Thomas Royou (1741-1792), a journal, L'Ami du roi (1790-1792), which possibly did more harm than good to the king's cause by its ill-advised partisanship. During the Reign of Terror, Geoffroy hid in the neighbourhood of Paris, only returning in 1799. An attempt to revive the Anne littraire failed, and Geoffroy undertook the position of theatre critic of the Journal des dbats. His scathing criticisms had a success of notoriety, but their popularity was ephemeral, and the publication of them (5 vols., 1819-1820) as Cours de littrature dramatique proved a failure. He was also the author of a perfunctory Commentaire on the works of Jean Racine prefixed to Lenormant's edition (1808).
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