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Alain-René Lesage (French pronunciation: [alɛ̃ ʁəne ləsaʒ]; 6 May 1668 – 17 November 1747; older spelling Le Sage) was a French novelist and playwright.Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks (1707, Le Diable boiteux), his comedy Turcaret (1709), and his picaresque novel Gil Blas (1715–1735).
An episode from Gil Blas was the basis of two separate French operas in the 1790s, both with the same title: La caverne (1793) by Le Sueur and La caverne by Méhul (1795). Gil Blas was the title of a five-act farcical opera by John Hamilton Reynolds adapting Lesage's novel, perhaps assisted by Thomas Hood , and first performed on 1 August 1822.
Lesage, LeSage, or Le Sage may refer to: Lesage (surname), including a list of people with the name Lesage, LeSage or Le Sage Alain-René Lesage (1668-1747), author of Gil Blas; Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724–1803), scientist Le Sage's theory of gravitation; Maison Lesage, a French couture embroidery atelier; Lesage, West Virginia, a place in ...
Gil Blas (or Le Gil Blas) was a Parisian literary periodical named for Alain-René Lesage's novel Gil Blas. It was founded by the sculptor Augustin-Alexandre Dumont in November 1879. Gil Blas serialized novels, such as Émile Zola's Germinal (1884) and L'Œuvre (1885), before they appeared in book form.
Alain-René Le Sage's Gil Blas (1715) is a classic example of the genre, [28] which in France had declined into an aristocratic adventure. [ citation needed ] In Britain, the first example is Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller (1594) in which a court page, Jack Wilson, exposes the underclass life in a string of European cities through ...
The Adventures of Gil Blas (French: Les Aventures de Gil Blas de Santillane, Spanish: Una aventura de Gil Blas) is a 1956 French–Spanish adventure film directed by René Jolivet and Ricardo Muñoz Suay and starring Georges Marchal, Barbara Laage and Susana Canales. [1] It is based on the eighteenth century novel Gil Blas by Alain-René Lesage.
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Ronald T. LeMay joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -23.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
English translation of The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane by Alain-René Le Sage; François-Vincent Toussaint – Les Mœurs; Voltaire – Zadig (in final form) [13] Horace Walpole – A Second and Third Letter to the Whigs; John Wesley – A Letter to a Person Lately Join'd with the People call'd Quakers [14]