Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de Piis

Pierre-Antoine-Augustin (17 September 1755, Paris  22 May 1832, Paris), chevalier de Piis was a French dramatist and man of letters. With Pierre-Yves Barré he was one of the co-founders of Paris's Théâtre du Vaudeville.

Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de Piis
Piis painted by Lagrenée in 1810(Musée de la Révolution française).
Born1755
Paris
Died1832
Paris
Occupationman of letters, playwright
NationalityFrench
Notable worksLes Solitaires de Normandie, le Savetier et le Financier

He was the son of Pierre-Joseph de Piis, chevalier de Saint-Louis and major to the Cap Français, and as such was intended for service in France's colonial army. However, due to his delicate health, he gave up the military and completed at the collège d'Harcourt the studies he had begun at the Louis le-Grand.

Sources

  • Ferdinand Hoefer, Nouvelle biographie générale, t. 40, Paris, Firmin Didot, frères, 1862, p. 226-7.
  • Louis Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des littératures, Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 1600
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