Arnault was born in Paris. His first play,Marius à Minturne (1791), immediately established his reputation. A year later he followed with a second republicantragedy,Lucrèce. Arnault left France during theReign of Terror, but on his return, he was arrested by the revolutionary authorities. He was freed through the intervention ofFabre d'Églantine and others. He was commissioned byNapoleon Bonaparte in 1797 with the organization of theFrench rule in the Ionian Islands, and was nominated to the Institute and made secretary general of the university. Elected to theAcadémie Française in 1803, he's excluded from it by ordinance in 1816, after the monarchy was restored, and reelected in 1829. Arnault was faithful to his patron through his misfortunes, and after theHundred Days remained in exile until 1819. Arnault died atGoderville.[1]
Other plays of Arnault's are:Blanche et Moncassin, ou les Vénitiens (1798); andGermanicus (1816), the performance of which was the occasion of a disturbance in theparterre which threatened serious political complications. His tragedies are now less well known than hisFables (1813, 1815 and 1826), which are written in graceful verse. Arnault collaborated aVie politique et militaire de Napoléon 1er (1822), and wrote some very interestingSouvenirs d'un sexagénaire (4 vols, 1833), which contain much out-of-the-way information about the history of the years previous to 1804. Arnault'sŒuvres complètes (4 vols.) were published at the Hague and Paris in 1818-9, and again (8 vols.) at Paris in 1824.[1]
Arnault's eldest son, Emilien Lucien Arnault (1787–1863), wrote several tragedies, the leading rôles in which were interpreted byTalma.[2]
1795:Oscar, fils d'Ossian, five-act tragedy, Paris, théâtre de la République, 14 prairial an IVText online
1798:Blanche et Montcassin, ou Les Vénitiens, tragedy in 5 acts, Paris, Théâtre-Français, 25 vendémiaire an VIIText online
1802:Don Pèdre ou Le roi et le laboureur, tragedy in five acts, in vers, Paris, Théâtre-Français
1804:Scipion consul, drame héroïque in i act and in verse
1813:Cadet-Roussel esturgeon, folie-parade in 2 acts, mingled with vaudevilles, withMarc-Antoine Désaugiers
1814:La Rançon de Duguesclin, ou Les Mœurs du XIVe
1817:Germanicus, tragedy in 5 acts and in verse, Paris, Comédiens français ordinaires du roi, 22 March
1817–19Œuvres complètes. Théâtre (4 volumes)
1825:Guillaume de Nassau, tragedy in 5 acts
1827:Le Proscrit, ou Les Guelfes et les Gibelins, tragedy in 5 acts and in verse, dedicated to the prompter of the Comédie-Française, Paris, Théâtre-Français, 9 July
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Arnault, Antoine Vincent".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 627.
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