Jean Baptiste Perrin (
fl.
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1786–1798) was a tutor and educational author. Born in France, he moved to Dublin and became a teacher of French. He often resided for months at a time in the houses of such of the Irish gentry as desired to acquire a knowledge of the French tongue.
He mixed in the political agitations of the period, and on 26 April 1784 was elected an honorary member of the
Sons of the Shamrock; and is said in 1795 to have joined in the invitation to the French government to invade Ireland. In his later years he resided at Leinster Lodge, near
Athy
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,
County Kildare
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. The date of his death is not given; but he was buried in the old churchyard at
Palmerstown.
He had at least one child,
Louis Perrin
Louis Perrin (15 February 1782 – 7 December 1864) was an Irish barrister, politician and judge.
Early life
Perrin was born in Waterford, the son of Jean Baptiste Perrin. Jean Baptiste, a Frenchman, had come to Ireland to seek a living: he se ...
, a judge, who was born at
Waterford in 1782.
Published works
He was the author of:
*''The French Student's Vade-mecum'', London, 1750.
*''Grammar of the French Tongue'', 1768.
*''Fables Amusantes'', 1771.
*''Entertaining and Instructive Exercises, with the Rules of the French Syntax'', 1773.
*''The Elements of French Conversation, with Dialogues'', 1774.
*''Lettres Choisies sur toutes sortes de sujet'', 1777.
*''The Practice of the French Pronunciation alphabetically exhibited'', 1777.
*''La Bonne Mère, contenant de petites pièces dramatiques'', 1786.
*''The Elements of English Conversation, with a Vocabulary in French, English, and Italian'', Naples, 1814.
The majority of these works went to many editions, and the ''Fables'' were adapted to the
Hamiltonian system in 1825.
References
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18th-century births
French expatriates in the United Kingdom
18th-century French writers
Year of death unknown