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Prosper Marchand
Prosper Marchand (11 March 1678 – 14 June 1756) was an 18th-century French bibliographer, who moved to the Dutch Republic in December 1709. He became a famous annotator and publisher of philosophical, religious and historical works, skilled in systematic table of contents and bibliographic indexes. Biography The son of a king's musician, a native of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, studied in Versailles. He studied with much success and was then placed by a bookseller to learn the trade. Fascinated from childhood by books, he acquired in a short time all the necessary knowledge and was admitted in 1698 in the guild of booksellers. He established his shop only by the end of 1701, in association with Gabriel II Martin. He opened rue Saint-Jacques, under the banner ''Phénix'', a store that soon became the meeting place for bibliophiles of the capital. Eager of literary anecdotes, he would forward them to Jacques Bernard, who then wrote in Holland the ''Nouvelles de la républi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste De Boyer
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (24 June 1704 – 11 January 1771) was a French rationalist, author and critic of the Catholic church, who was a close friend of Voltaire and spent much of his life in exile at the court of Frederick the Great. Life Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, later Marquis d’Argens, was born on 24 June 1704 in the southern French town of Aix-en-Provence. He was the eldest of seven children of Pierre-Jean de Boyer and Angélique de L'Enfant, daughter of Luc de L'Enfant (1656–1729), President of the Regional Parliament. Pierre-Jean de Boyer was Procureur général or Attorney-General for the Regional Parliament of Provence and a member of the Second Estate, the ''Noblesse de robe'' or Nobles of the robe. Their rank derived from the possession of judicial or administrative posts and unlike the aristocratic ''Noblesse d'épée'' or Nobles of the Sword, they were often hard-working middle-class professionals. By the mid-18th century, many of these po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonaventure Des Périers
Bonaventure ( ; it, Bonaventura ; la, Bonaventura de Balneoregio; 1221 – 15 July 1274), born Giovanni di Fidanza, was an Italian Catholic Franciscan, bishop, cardinal, scholastic theologian and philosopher. The seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, he also served for a time as Bishop of Albano. He was canonised on 14 April 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV and declared a Doctor of the Church in 1588 by Pope Sixtus V. He is known as the "Seraphic Doctor" ( la, Doctor Seraphicus). His feast day is 15 July. Many writings believed in the Middle Ages to be his are now collected under the name Pseudo-Bonaventure. Life He was born at Civita di Bagnoregio, not far from Viterbo, then part of the Papal States. Almost nothing is known of his childhood, other than the names of his parents, Giovanni di Fidanza and Maria di Ritella. Bonaventure reports that in his youth he was saved from an untimely death by the prayers of Francis of Assisi, which is the primary motivatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Des Maizeaux
Pierre des Maizeaux, also spelled Desmaizeaux (c. 1666 or 1673June 1745), was a French Huguenot writer exiled in London, best known as the translator and biographer of Pierre Bayle. He was born in Pailhat, Auvergne, France. His father, a minister of the reformed church, had to leave France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and took refuge in Geneva, where Pierre was educated. Pierre Bayle gave him an introduction to Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, with whom, in 1689, he went to England, where he engaged in literary work. He remained in close touch with the religious refugees in England and Holland, and through his involvement with the Huguenot information centre based at the masonic Rainbow Coffee House he was constantly in correspondence with the leading continental savants and writers, who were in the habit of employing him to conduct such business as they might have in England. In 1720 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He was a colleague of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques-Georges Chauffepié
Jacques-Georges Chauffepié (9 November 1702 in Leeuwarden – 5 July 1786 in Amsterdam) was an 18th-century French biographer and Calvinist minister and preacher. English, French, and Dutch name authorities identify him as ''Jacques-George de Chaufepié''. Publications *1736: ''Lettres sur divers sujets importans de la religion''. Also published as ''Brieven over gewigtige zaken betreffende den godsdienst'' (Haarlem, 1738). *1756: ''La verité de la religion chretienne prouvée par l’etat present du peuple juif ''. *1760: ''La pratique des vertus chrétiennes, ou Tous les devoirs de l’homme'', which is a translation of the English '' The Whole Duty of Man''. *1738: ''Histoire du monde, sacrée et profane'', which is a translation of Samuel Shuckford's ''The Sacred and Prophane History of the World Connected''. Chaufepié translated only the second volume. The first volume was translated by John Peter Bernard John Peter Bernard (french: Jean-Pierre Bernard) (died 1750) was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barthélemy Mercier De Saint-Léger
Barthélemy Mercier de Saint-Léger (4 April 1734, Lyon – 13 May 1799, Paris) was a French abbot and librarian. Publications # ''Lettres sur la Bibliographie instructive de M. Debure'', 1763 ; # ''Lettre de M. Mercier,… à M. Capperonnier,… sur l’approbation donnée au second volume de la ″Bibliographie instructive″'', 12 September 1764 ; # ''Notice du livre intitulé : ″Reformatorium vitae morumque et honestatis clericorum″ (de Jacques Philippi, curé de St-Pierre, à Bâle), imprimé à Bâle, chez Michel Furter, sous la fausse daté de 1444'', 1764 ; # ''Lettre sur un Nouveau Dictionnaire historique portatif qui s’imprime à Avignon'', 1766 (examen critique du dictionnaire de Chaudon) ; # ''Supplément à l’Histoire de l’imprimerie de Prosper Marchand'' Paris, 1772, in-4° ; nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée, 1775, in-4° ; # ''Consultations pour les prêtres séculiers pourvus des cures de Saint-Étienne-du-Mont et de Église Saint-Médard, Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pope Sixtus V
Pope Sixtus V ( it, Sisto V; 13 December 1521 – 27 August 1590), born Felice Piergentile, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 24 April 1585 to his death in August 1590. As a youth, he joined the Franciscan order, where he displayed talents as a scholar and preacher, and enjoyed the patronage of Pius V, who made him a cardinal. As a cardinal, he was known as Cardinal Montalto. As Pope, he energetically rooted out corruption and lawlessness across Rome, and launched a far-sighted rebuilding programme that continues to provoke controversy, as it involved the destruction of antiquities. The cost of these works was met by heavy taxation that caused much suffering. His foreign policy was regarded as over-ambitious, and he excommunicated both Queen Elizabeth I of England and King Henry IV of France. He is recognized as a significant figure of the Counter-Reformation. He is the most recent pope to date to take on the pontifical name "Sixtus". Early l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Peignot
Étienne-Gabriel Peignot (15 May 1767 – 14 August 1849) was a 19th-century French bibliographer. Biography First a lawyer in Besançon, Gabriel Peignot was a librarian and inspector of several institutions. He was a member of the Académie celtique of Paris, and of several literary societies. Peignot was one of the most famous bibliographers of his time. Pierre Larousse in his edition of the 19th century encyclopedia states: Gabriel Peignot published a book, ''Le Livre des singularités'' (1841), under the pseudonym "G.P. Philomneste". Works *1800: ''Petite bibliothèque choisie'', Paris *1801: ''Manuel Bibliographique'', Paris, Villier, 1801. *1802: ''Dictionnaire raisonné de bibliologie'', Paris, Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 2 vol., and ''Supplément'', 1804 *1804: ''Essai de curiosités bibliographiques'', Paris, Antoine-Augustin Renouard, (An) XIII). *1802: ''Dictionnaire critique, littéraire et bibliographique des principaux livres condamnés au feu, supprimés ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Giraud
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian ''bandes dessinées'' (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim under the pseudonym Mœbius (; ), as well as Gir () outside the English-speaking world, used for the '' Blueberry'' series—his most successful creation in the non-English speaking parts of the world—and his Western-themed paintings. Esteemed by Federico Fellini, Stan Lee, and Hayao Miyazaki, among others,Screech, Matthew. 2005. Moebius/Jean Giraud: ''Nouveau Réalisme'' and Science fiction. in Libbie McQuillan (ed) "The Francophone bande dessinée" Rodopi. p. 1 he has been described as the most influential ''bande dessinée'' artist after Hergé. His most famous works include the series ''Blueberry'', created with writer Jean-Michel Charlier, featuring one of the first antiheroes in Western comics. As Mœbius, he created a wide range of science-fiction and fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Hyacinthe
Saint-Hyacinthe (; French: ) is a city in southwestern Quebec east of Montreal on the Yamaska River. The population as of the 2021 Canadian census was 57,239. The city is located in Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality of the Montérégie region, and is traversed by the Yamaska River. Quebec Autoroute 20 runs perpendicular to the river. Saint-Hyacinthe is the seat of the judicial district of the same name. History Jacques-Hyacinthe Simon dit Delorme, owner of the seigneurie, started its settlement in 1757. He gave his patron saint name (Saint Hyacinth the Confessor of Poland) to the seigneurie, which was made a city in 1850. St. Hyacinth's Cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe. It was erected in 1852. 2001 merger As part of the 2000–06 municipal reorganization in Quebec, on 27 December 2001, the city of Saint-Hyacinthe amalgamated with five neighbouring towns (listed here with their populations as of 2001): * Saint-Hyacinth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willem Bentinck Van Rhoon
Willem, Count Bentinck, Lord of Rhoon and Pendrecht (6 November 1704 – 13 October 1774) was a Dutch nobleman and politician, and the eldest son from the second marriage of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland. He was created Count Bentinck (''Graf Bentinck'') of the Holy Roman Empire in 1732. Bentinck played a leading role in the Orangist revolution of 1747 in the Netherlands. Early life Bentinck was the first son in the marriage of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, and his second wife Jane Martha Temple. As there was an elder brother from the first marriage, Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland, he did not inherit the English possessions of his father under the rules of primogeniture, but he and his brother Charles did inherit some of their father's Dutch estates, Willem inheriting the lordships of Rhoon and Pendrecht which gave him a seat in the '' Ridderschap'', the estate of nobles in the States of Holland and West Friesland, which would become his power base in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Van Der Schley
Jakob van der Schley aka Jakob van Schley (26 July 1715 Amsterdam – 7 February 1779 Amsterdam) was a Dutch draughtsman and engraver. He studied under Bernard Picart (1673-1733) whose style he subsequently copied. His main interests were engraving portraits and producing illustrations for "La Vie de Marianne" by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (1688-1763), published in The Hague between 1735 and 1747. He also engraved the frontispieces for a 15-volume edition of the complete works of Pierre de Brantôme (1540-1614), "''Oeuvres du seigneur de Brantôme''", published in The Hague in 1740. Most of the plates in the Hague edition of Antoine François Prévost, Prévost's "''Histoire générale des voyages''" are signed by van der Schley. He cooperated with Prosper Marchand who owned many of his prints. References External links 'La Vie de Marianne' gallery {{DEFAULTSORT:Schley, Jakob van der 1715 births 1779 deaths Dutch draughtsmen Engravers from Amsterdam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
