Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

(1709-1777)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Gresset, 1709-1777 LBT ID: JeGress1777 VIAF ID: 41861940 LOC ID: n83041888	B/BAP: 1709-08-29 DIED: 1777-06-16
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French poet and dramatist, author of the comic Vert-Vert (1734) about a talking parrot, several times translated.
REFERENCES TO Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset: Sydney Owenson to Alicia Le Fanu, 28 March 1806 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Gibson Lockhart to Jonathan Christie, 3 August 1815 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 2 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXII Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 3: 1813-15