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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.
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Alain-René Le Sage (1668–1747) Pierre de Marivaux (1688–1763) Voltaire (1694–1778), philosophe, satirist, playwright, author of Candide; Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758), author of Lettres d'une Péruvienne; Abbé Prévost (1697–1763), author of Manon Lescaut; Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707–1777)
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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 ...