93,772 profiles ranked live

Pierre-Charles Roy

✓ Source-basedfalling

French poet

FranceWritersLived 1683 to 1764 · aged 81
Compare
Fame38.1
Momentum1.6
Languages6
In century#9,855

Pierre-Charles Roy was a French poet and man of letters, noted for his collaborations with the composers François Francoeur and André Cardinal Destouches, to produce librettos for several opera-ballets, on classical subjects or pseudo-classical pastiches, for seven tragedies, and for his rivalry with the young...

Also inDeutsch

Awards 2

Prix d'Académie
Knight of the Order of Saint Michael

Connected to Pierre-Charles 6

About this person

Pierre-Charles Roy was a French poet and man of letters, noted for his collaborations with the composers François Francoeur and André Cardinal Destouches, to produce librettos for several opera-ballets, on classical subjects or pseudo-classical pastiches, for seven tragedies, and for his rivalry with the young Voltaire, who immortalised Roy with some disdainful public words.

Country
France
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1683 to 1764 · aged 81
Written about in
6 languages

Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.