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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jean-Louis Laya (December 4, 1761 - August 25, 1833) was a French dramatist born in Paris. He wrote his first comedy in collaboration with Gabriel-Marie Legouv in 1785. The piece, however, though accepted by the Com die fran aise, was never represented. In 1789 he produced a plea for religious toleration in the form of a five-act tragedy in verse, Jean Calas. In his next work, the injustice of the disgrace cast on a family by the crime of one of its members formed the theme of Les Dangers de l'opinion (1790).It is by his Ami des lois (1793) that Laya is best remembered. This energetic protest against mob rule, with its scarcely veiled characterizations of Robespierre as Nomophage and of Marat as Duricrne, was an act of the highest courage, for the play was produced at the Th tre Fran ais (temporarily Th tre de la Nation) only nineteen days before the execution of Louis XVI.

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