My Dog Drank My Breast Milk

Florian, Jean-Pierre Claris de, 1755-1794.

March 6, 1755, Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian was born in the castle Florian in Languedoc. Her mother died the following year. Despite this tragedy, the young Florian lead a happy life and freedom in the homestead.
Jean Pierre is ten years his education was entrusted to his uncle, Philippe-Antoine de Claris, married to a niece of Voltaire. The young Florian stays Ferney, from the great philosopher, with his uncle and aunt, then moved home in the Marais district in Paris.
In 1768, he was admitted as a page at the Duke of Penthievre, which will help them discover the world of the court. Florian entered the military school at Bapaume in 1771. But it leaves Lieutenant literature draws more than the army.
In 1779 his first comedy, Two Tickets is well received by critics. In 1782, with, Voltaire and the serf du Mont-Jura , satire, Florian condemns slavery. The work is rewarded by the Academy. A new comedy, the Twins Bergamo obtained a triumph. The following year, Florian publishes a verse tale based on a story by Cervantes, Galatea . Florian reveals his talent for pastoral care. The work is preceded by a preface that recounts the life of Cervantes. Author
now in vogue, Florian frequent the salon of Madame de la Briche. He wrote in 1786, an epic novel Numa Pompilius , he seeks the backing of the epic to support his literary ambitions, he wants effect for a seat in the French Academy but his epic is not welcomed by critics as well as by the queen to whom the work was, however, was dedicated. In
, 1788, Florian returns to the pastoral with Estelle, the book won a considerable success. Promoted lieutenant-colonel, our author succeeds, the French Academy, Cardinal de Luynes. In 1789, when rumblings of revolution, Florian embarks the composition of the collection of Fables . Florian became commander in chief of the National Guard of the Seals in 1791. The Fables preceded by an essay on the kind of "fable, entitled From the fable are published in 1792 and obtained a great success. Florian then began to translate and adapt the Don Quixote by Cervantes .
Order Agenda Committee hello public in 1793, Florian was released after the fall of Robespierre in 1794, but sorely tried by his stay in prison, he succumbs to the attacks of consumption that the mine for several years.