Editing Carlo Goldoni (section)

=== Move to France and death ===
[[File:Carlo Goldoni buste neige.jpg|thumb|130px|Bust of Goldoni, near [[Notre Dame de Paris|Notre Dame]] in Paris]]

In 1757, he engaged in a bitter dispute with playwright [[Carlo Gozzi]], which left him utterly disgusted with the tastes of his countrymen; so much so that in 1761 he moved to Paris, where he received a position at court and was put in charge of the [[Théâtre-Italien]]. He spent the rest of his life in France, composing most of his plays in French and writing his memoirs in that language.

Among the plays which he wrote in French, the most successful was ''[[Le bourru bienfaisant]]'', dedicated to [[Adélaïde of France (1732–1800)|Marie Adélaïde]], a daughter of [[Louis XV]] and aunt to the [[Dauphin of France|dauphin]], the future [[Louis XVI]] of France. It premiered on 4 February 1771, almost nine months after the dauphin's marriage to [[Marie Antoinette]].<ref>Richards 1995; [https://books.google.com/books?id=81etmWhHeJ0C&pg=PP1 title page of ''Le bourru bienfaisant''].</ref> Goldoni enjoyed considerable popularity in France; in 1769, when he retired to [[Versailles (city)|Versailles]], the King gave him a pension.<ref>Richards 1995.</ref> He lost this pension after the [[French Revolution]]. The Convention eventually voted to restore his pension the day after his death. It was restored to his widow, at the pleading of the poet [[André Chénier]]; "She is old", he urged, "she is seventy-six, and her husband has left her no heritage save his illustrious name, his virtues and his poverty."
[[File:Commedie del dottore Carlo Goldoni.tif|thumb|''Commedie del dottore Carlo Goldoni'' (1753)]]