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Jean-Félicissime Adry
Jean-Félicissime Adry (1749, Vincelottes, Yonne – 20 March 1818, Paris) was a 19th-century French bibliographer. Biography A member of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, he taught rhetoric at the Troyes college. He befriended Pierre-Jean Grosley, for who he transcribed documents on the history of Troyes. He then became librarian of the house of the Oratory in Paris. Driven from this job at the French Revolution, he retired to his study, among his books, receiving visits only of his former students and men of letters. His contributions to the '' Magasin encyclopédique'' by Aubin-Louis Millin de Grandmaison drew attention on him and he was appointed a member of the commission examining the books and obtained a pension. In addition to several editions of ancients and modern works, among which those by Quintilius, Cicero, Boccaccio, Madame de La Fayette, Fénelon, La Fontaine, François Raguenet, Marie de Hautefort and François Charpentier, he especially wrote a ''Dictionna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincelottes
Vincelottes () is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France. The bibliographer Jean-Félicissime Adry was born here in 1749. See also *Communes of the Yonne department The following is a list of the 423 communes of the Yonne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Yonne {{Yonne-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Raguenet
François Raguenet (c. 1660 in Rouen – 1722) was a French historian, biographer and musicologist. Biography Raguenet embraced the ecclesiastical state, and became preceptor of Marie Anne Mancini, cardinal de Bouillon's niece. This position, leaving him the leisure to cultivate his taste for letters, he distinguished himself in the competitions of the Académie française and obtained, in 1685, an accessit by a discourse on the subject, ("On patience and the vice that is contrary to it"). Two years later, he won the prize in a speech entitled ("On the merit and use of martyrdom"). Encouraged by this first success, he published the , which was well received. In 1698, abbott Raguenet followed Cardinal de Bouillon at Rome and for two years studied the masterpieces of the arts which decorate the palaces and churches of the capital of the Christian world. The description he gave of it, shortly after his return to Paris, earned him the "letters from the Roman citizen", a title whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Bibliographers
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18th-century French Male Writers
The 18th century lasted from January 1, 1701 ( MDCCI) to December 31, 1800 ( MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions. During the century, slave trading and human trafficking expanded across the shores of the Atlantic, while declining in Russia, China, and Korea. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures, including the structures and beliefs that supported slavery. The Industrial Revolution began during mid-century, leading to radical changes in human society and the environment. Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715–1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revolution, with an emphasis on directly interconnected events. To historians who expand t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
