André Lefèvre (4 May 1718 – 25 February 1768
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The title of Duke de La Rochefoucauld is a French peerage belonging to one of the most famous families of the French nobility, whose origins go back to lord Rochefoucauld in Charente in the 10th and 11th centuries (with official evidence of nobili ...
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He contributed the articles « gouverneur », « faiblesse », « folie » and « gouvernante », to the ''Encyclopédie
''Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers'' (English: ''Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts''), better known as ''Encyclopédie'', was a general encyclopedia publis ...
'' by Diderot
Denis Diderot (; ; 5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie'' along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominen ...
and d'Alembert
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (; ; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the ''Encyclopédie ...
Works
*1744
''Mémoires de l’Académie des sciences de Troyes en Champagne.'' Liège
*1748: ''Pot-Pourri.''
*1767
''Dialogue entre un curé et son filleul.''
Sources
* Pierre Larousse
Pierre Athanase Larousse (23 October 18173 January 1875) was a French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist. He published many of the outstanding educational and reference works of 19th-century France, including the 15-volume ''Grand dict ...
, ''Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe'', vol. 10, Paris, Administration du grand Dictionnaire universel, (p. 1477).
* John Lough, ''The Encyclopédie.'' Slatkine, Geneva (1971)(p. 51)
References
External links
André Lefèvre
on data.bnf.fr
André Lefèvre
on Wikisource
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18th-century French lawyers
18th-century French male writers
18th-century French poets
Contributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772)
1717 births
People from Troyes
1768 deaths