Inès de Castro

by Antoine Houdar de la Motte

83 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 2, 2015

About the author

Antoine Houdar de la Motte was a French author. He was elected to the Académie française in 1710. He was a champion of the moderns in the revived controversy of the ancients and moderns. His Fables nouvelles (1719) was regarded as a modernist manifesto. His tragedy, Inès de Castro (1723), was an immense success at the Theâtre Français.