Belloy

Belloy, Pierre Laurent Buirette de, dramatist, was born in 1727 at St. Flour in Auvergne. He played under the name of Dormont, making his first hit in France in 1762, in Zelmire, a tragedy of his own. His Le Siege de Calais followed in 1765. Gaston et Bagard in 1771, admitting him to the French Academy, and Pierre le Cruel in 1772. He died in 1775 at Paris.