Antoine de Rivarol (June 26, 1753, Bagnols, Languedoc, France РApril 11, 1801 Berlin), was a French writer and epigrammatist. is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1753 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Bagnols-sur-C̬ze is a French market town of 18,761 inhabitants in the Gard d̩partement in the Languedoc-Roussillon r̩gion. ... For the language called Langue doc, see Occitan language. ... is the 101st day of the year (102nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Union Jack, flag of the newly formed United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ... This article is about the capital of Germany. ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... An epigram is a short poem with a clever twist at the end or a concise and witty statement. ...

It appears that Rivarol's father, an innkeeper, was a cultivated man. The son assumed the title of comte de Rivarol, asserting a connection with a noble Italian family, but his enemies said his name was really Riverot and that he was not of a noble family. After various vicissitudes, he went to Paris in 1777 and won some academic prizes. In 1784, his treatise Sur l'universalité de la langue française and his translation of Dante's Inferno were favourably noted. The year before the French Revolution broke out, he and a certain Champcenetz published a lampoon, titled Petit Almanach de nos grands hommes pour 1788, that ridiculed without pity a number of writers of proven or future talent, along with a great many nobodies. Dante in a fresco series of famous men by Andrea del Castagno, ca. ... For other uses see The Divine Comedy (disambiguation), Dantes Inferno (disambiguation), and The Inferno (disambiguation) Dante shown holding a copy of The Divine Comedy, next to the entrance to Hell, the seven terraces of Mount Purgatory and the city of Florence, with the spheres of Heaven above, in Michelino... The French Revolution (1789–1815) was a period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on... In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ...

When the press proved crucial for the fate of the French Revolution, Rivarol took up the cudgels on the Royalist side, writing in the Journal politique of Antoine Sabatier de Castres and the Actes des Apotres of Jean Gabriel Peltier. He left France in 1792, first settling in Brussels, then moving successively to London, Hamburg, and Berlin. The French Revolution (1789–1815) was a period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on... For other places with the same name, see Brussels (disambiguation). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the city in Germany. ... This article is about the capital of Germany. ...

Rivarol's rivals in France -in sharp conversational sayings- included Alexis Piron and Nicolas Chamfort. Many of Rivarol's "maximes" were ill-natured and hold only for their place and time. However, their brilliance is incontrovertible, such as this timeless comment: "The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy." Alexis Piron (July 9, 1689 - January 21, 1773), was a French epigrammatist and dramatist. ... Nicolas Chamfort (April 6, 1741, Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne France - April 13, 1794, Paris) was a French writer, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms. ...

The complete works of Antoine de Rivarol, in 5 volumes, were published in 1805. Selections from these works were published by Sainte-Beuve in 1858, and by M. de Lescure in 1862 (2nd ed., 1880). Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve. ...

His brother, Claude François (1762-1848), was also an author. His works include Isman, ou le fatalisme (1795), a novel; Le Véridique (1827), comedy; Essai sur les causes de la révolution française (1827).

References

• De Lescure, M., 1882. Rivarol et la société française pendant la révolution et l'émigration .
• Le Breton, 1895. Rivarol, sa vie, ses idées.

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