Antoine-Claude-Pierre Masson de La Motte-Conflans, Or Conflant, born in

Vertus Vertus () is a former commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. On 1 January 2018, it was merged into the new commune of Blancs-Coteaux. The Encyclopédiste Antoine-Claude-Pierre Masson de La Motte-Conflans (1727–1801) was born ...

in 1727 – died in the same place in 1801 was an 18th-century French man of letters. A lawyer at the

Parlement de Paris The Parliament of Paris (french: Parlement de Paris) was the oldest ''parlement'' in the Kingdom of France, formed in the 14th century. It was fixed in Paris by Philip IV of France in 1302. The Parliament of Paris would hold sessions inside the ...

, La Motte-Conflans was a member of the Société littéraire of Châlons-sur-Marne.

Works

*1748: ''l'Année sans merveille, ou Fausseté de l'année merveilleuse (by abbé Gabriel-François Coyer)'', Lille; *1747: ''l'Armée du Roi dans la Flandre hollandaise'',

ode An ode (from grc, ᾠδή, ōdḗ) is a type of lyric poetry. Odes are elaborately structured poems praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally. A classic ode is structured in three majo ...

, * ''Épitre au Roi sur la paix'' ; Published under the name of an officer from Gascony *1747: ''Epître du magister de Lauffeldt an curé de Fontenoy'', in-12° ; *1747: ''Étrennes du Parnasse'', in-12° ; *1746: ''la Gloire de la ville d'Ypres sous le gouvernement français'', ode,. He provided theFrank A. Kafker, ''French Historical Studies'', Vol. 3, n° 1, Spring, 1963, (p. 106–22). ''

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 ...

, the articles ''Denier'' and ''Épier''.

References

Sources

Joseph-Marie Quérard Joseph Marie Quérard (25 December 1797 – 3 December 1865) was a French bibliographer. He was born at Rennes, where he was apprenticed to a bookseller. Sent abroad on business, he remained in Vienna from 1819 to 1824, where he drew up the fi ...

, ''La France littéraire'', t. 5, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1862, 1833, (p. 611). * Frank A. Kafker
Notices sur les auteurs des dix-sept volumes de « discours » de l'Encyclopédie
''Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie'', 1989, Volume 7, Numéro 7, (pp. 125–150)

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