Claude Brossette, seigneur de Varennes d'Appetour (7 November 1671 in

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– 1743) was a French lawyer and writer. He was educated at the ''Collège de la Trinité'' in

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and joined the

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before turning to law. In 1700 he founded the ''Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Lyon'', where he remained a bibliothecarian until 1743, and whose secretary he was appointed in 1724. Brossette was a man of far-reaching connections, exchanging letters with Academy President Bouhier, Abbot Olivet and Father Vanière from

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. Between 1699 and 1710 he was a regular correspondent of

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poet and satirist Boileau, whose works he edited with commentaries. Their correspondence was published in 1770 by François Louis Cizeron Rival. He was acquainted with François de Lamoignon and

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from the

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, and with

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. Later his reach widened; he exchanged point of views with

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, Abbot Lenglet-Dufresnoy, Déon, and Father Brumoy.

Works

*''Histoire Abrégée ou éloge historique de la ville de Lyon'', 1711 *Editions of Boileau,

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Notes and references

* French article

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