Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet
French politician and writer
Died when: 90 years 235 days (1087 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet (18 November 1777 – 10 July 1868) was a French politician, playwright and poet.He was also a member of the Académie française and a prominent Freemason.
His long career as a soldier then a politician, playwright and poet lasted through political revolutions and literary wars, and is full of incident and travels.
He had a talent for self-promotion within many regimes and got to know all political and literary dignitaries, all the while verging on impopularity.
He said "I have counted up to 500 epigrams a year against me; anyone who escapes college to join a soap-opera thinks I should have his first kick".
His name was like a red rag to a bull to Republicans and Romantics, but he avenged himself on his worst enemies by fables or epithets against them.
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