Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet: Biography, Facts and Career
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Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet (18 November 1777 – 10 July 1868) was a French politician, playwright and poet. He was also a member of the Académie française and a prominent Freemason. His long career as a soldier then a politician, playwright and poet lasted through political revolutions and literary wars, and is full of incident and travels. He had a talent for self-promotion within many regimes and got to know all political and literary dignitaries, all the while verging on impopularity. He said "I have counted up to 500 epigrams a year against me; anyone who escapes college to join a soap-opera thinks I should have his first kick". His name was like a red rag to a bull to Republicans and Romantics, but he avenged himself on his worst enemies by fables or epithets against them.
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- Full name: Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet
- Born: 1777-11-18
- Nationality: France
- Known as: Author
- Wikidata ID: Q205591
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Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet (18 November 1777 – 10 July 1868) was a French politician, playwright and poet.
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Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet is France.
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Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet was born on 1777-11-18.
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