François Xavier Talbert, dit l'abbé Talbert (1725,

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– 4 June 1805,

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), was an 18th-century French preacher and writer. He was a

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in Besançon and later in Paris before emigrating to Ukraine where he died. Concurrently with

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, he treated the question proposed by the Académie de Dijon on '' l'Origine de l'inégalité parmi les hommes'' (1754) and won the prize. In addition to his ''Sermons'', he wrote ''Éloges'' of

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, Bossuet, Massillon and other great French figures, crowned by several academies. He contributed the article "preux" (brave, gallant, doughty) to the ''Supplement'' of the ''

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and D’Alembert. He was one of the founding members of the .« TALBERT François Xavier dit l’abbé Talbert »
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François Xavier Talbert
on data.bnf.fr {{DEFAULTSORT:Talbert, Francois Xavier 18th-century French writers 18th-century French male writers 1725 births Clergy from Besançon 1805 deaths Writers from Besançon