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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 républiq ... [...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 mo ... [...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 A ... [...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] |
