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Népomucène-Louis Lemercier (1771–1840)
Lemercier, Népomucène-Louis (lė-mer-syā’). A French poet; born at Paris, April 21, 1771; died there, June 7, 1840. After many failures he made a brilliant success with his classical tragedy ‘Agamemnon’ (1795). Besides ‘Four Metamorphoses’ (1799), and ‘Pinto’ (1800), a mixture of tragedy and comedy, in which he attempts to outdo ‘Figaro’s Wedding,’ the most notable of his works is the philosophical satire ‘The Panhypocrisiad, or Infernal Spectacle of the Sixteenth Century’ (in 16 cantos; 4 more added in 1832).