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Jean Jacques Quesnot de la Chesnée (Eighteenth Century)
Quesnot de la Chesnée, Jean Jacques (kā-nō’ dė lä shā-nā’). A French writer of the eighteenth century. Little is known concerning him. He was a French Protestant, an exile from his country after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes; and his productions are chiefly attacks against his country. He wrote: ‘The Battle of Ramillies,’ a historic pastoral; ‘The Battle of Hoogstet,’ an operatic tragedy; etc.