Jean Fran%C3%A7ois Roger

JeanFranois Roger, sometimes called Franois Roger , was a French politician, journalist, poet and dramatic author. During the Revolution, atyears of age, he and his family were imprisoned for seventeen months for singing royalist songs. He was a civil servant, and he entered l University where he published works of school literature. He was later appointed Professor during the Empire and Restoration. He was elected member of the French Academy, as a replacement for Suard, onAugust 1817 and received by the duke of Lvis onNovember next. His election was widely criticized. He was a member of the Commission of the Dictionary where he fought the Lacretelle proposal, accepted Villemain and the count of HolyAulaire and voted against Victor Hugo. He was one of the companions of the Lunch of the Fork. Of his comic and lyric works, sometimes written in collaboration with Etienne de Jouy, his greatest success is a comedy in verse, in three acts LAvocat, played for the first time at the

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