Jean-François Géorgel (29 January 1731 in Bruyères (

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region) – 1813 in the same city) was a French clergyman, abbot and member of the

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. He is particularly known for the six volumes of his memoirs of the

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entitled ''Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des événements de la fin du dix-huitième siècle''. He also wrote a ''Voyage de St Pétersbourg en 1800''.''Catalogue de livres, dessins, médailles anciennes et modernes, monnaies, électricité, etc.'' de la Comtesse de Proli, vendus le 16 mai 1825 à Gand.
/ref> Both works were published by his nephew in 1818.

Publications

* ''Réponse à un écrit anonyme, intitulé : Mémoire sur les rangs et les honneurs de la cour'', Paris, Le Breton & Veuve Duchesne, 1771 (in-octavo). Ouvrage lors de la polémique touchant la prétention des Rohan au titre de Prince. Géorgel, co-adjuteur du cardinal de Rohan,

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, défendit bien entendu le titre de prince. * * ''Voyage à Saint-Pétersbourg en 1799-1800'', published by M. Georgel, nephew of the author, Paris : A. Eymery, 1818 (in-octavo, 487 p.).

External links

Abbé Géorgel
ville de Bruyères

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Georgel, Jean-Francois 1731 births 18th-century French Jesuits 19th-century French Jesuits French memoirists People from Alsace 1813 deaths 19th-century French writers 19th-century French male writers French male non-fiction writers 19th-century memoirists