After inheriting his mother's considerable fortune in 1693, he devoted the time divided between his hôtel in Paris and his country house, the château of Grillon, near Dourdan, to writing comedies in verse for the Comédie française, twenty-three in total, the best of them being Le Joueur ("The Gamester", 1696), Le Distrait (1697), Les Menechmes and his masterwork, Le Légataire universelle ("The residuary legatee", 1706), following closely in the steps of Molière.
Louis Ignacio-Pinto (born June 21 1903 in Porto-Novo, Benin, and died May 24 1984 in Dourdan, France) was a politician from Benin who served in the French Senate from 1947-1955.
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