Bernard-Joseph Saurin [SEP] place of death
Bernard-Joseph Saurin
Bernard-Joseph Saurin (1706 in Paris – 17 November 1781 in Paris) was a lawyer, poet, and playwright.
Biography.
Saurin was the son of Joseph Saurin, a converted Protestant minister and mathematician who had been accused in 1712 by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau of being the actual author of defamatory verses that gossip had attributed to Rousseau.
Attracted to literature, and frequenting the Society of the Caveau, he became a lawyer at Parliament, a career which he did not like
veritable triumph. During her twenty-two years at this theatre, dividing the honors with her rival Marie Françoise Dumesnil, she filled many of the classical roles of tragedy, and created a great number of parts in the plays of Voltaire, Marmontel, Bernard-Joseph Saurin, de Belloy and others.
She retired in 1766, and trained pupils for the stage, among them Mlle Raucourt. Oliver Goldsmith called Mlle Clairon "the most perfect female figure I have ever seen on any stage" ("The Bee"