Pierre de Frasnay (1676 in

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– 27 April 1753 in Nevers) was an 18th-century French writer, translator and local historian who on 15 May 1725 became baron de

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Work

De Frasnay worked in the finance department of local government. He began his career as a writer by publishing genre poems in classical style in the ''

Mercure de France The () was originally a French gazette and literary magazine first published in the 17th century, but after several incarnations has evolved as a publisher, and is now part of the Éditions Gallimard publishing group. The gazette was publis ...

''. Among these was his ''Fayence'' (chinaware), written as a boost to the Nevers pottery trade and soon translated into Latin as ''Vasa Faventina'', also in the 1735 ''Mercure''. His subsequent researches into local history involved him in controversy concerning their accuracy, from which he soon withdrew. His final work was a two-volume compilation of Aesopic poems, ''Mythologie ou recueil des fables grecques, esopiques et sybaritiques'' (Orléans, 1750), to which he added prose reflections drawing out the human lessons of the fables.Volume 1
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Frasnay, Pierre de 18th-century French writers 18th-century French male writers French fabulists People from Nivernais People from Nevers 1676 births 1753 deaths