Alexandre Deleyre
Alexandre Deleyre (5 or 10 January 1726, Portets near Bordeaux – 10 March 1797, Paris aged 71) was an 18th-century French man of letters and translator from Latin. He was a friend of J.J. Rousseau, who used his translations of Lucretius for compositions. Biography Alexandre Deleyre was the son of the bailiff Jean Deleyre from the province Guyenne. He studied at a Jesuit college in Bordeaux but lost his faith. He chose for the bar (law) but then decided to move to Paris. There he looked for other atheists. Montesquieu became the patron of Deleyre and introduced him to the Encyclopedists, Charles Duclos and Baron d'Holbach. In 1754 he worked for the ''Journal des Savants''. From November 1756 to March 1757 he worked for the ' with Baron von Grimm. This journal was published by Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard, François Arnaud, Antoine François Prévost and the lawyer Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Gerbier.He cooperated with Denis Diderot, Claude Adrien Helvétius and Jean-Jacques R ...
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