Antoine Bret

Antoine Bret (9 July 1717, Dijon – 25 February 1792, Paris aged 74) was an 18th-century French writer and playwright.

He practiced multiple genres and composed light poetry, comedies, novels, memoirs, parodic, and licentious tales. He wrote in a very clear style with new ideas everyday, but critics felt his work was clever rather than deep. This gave him a decent reputation, though he was never considered a great writer.

He was a person who knew a lot about theater and drama. He wrote several plays, but many critics noticed that his works did not have a lot of energy or comedy.

We owe him an edition of the ''Oeuvres'' by Molière, whose comments were appreciated. ''La Belle Alsacienne, ou Telle mère telle fille'', a libertine novel first published in 1745 under the title ''La Belle Allemande, ou les Galanteries de Thérèse'', which tells the story of a girl walking in the footsteps of her mother and letting her drive by in the ways of gallantry, was assigned to him as well as to Claude Villaret. Antoine Bret was a member of the Académie de Stanislas in Nancy and Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon. During several years, he contributed the ''Gazette de France'' and ''Journal encyclopédique'' and was also royal censor for operas. Provided by Wikipedia