Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard (15 January 1732 – 20 July 1817) was a French

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and man of letters during the

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. He was born in

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and died in

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Biography

Suard was incarcerated in the ''Royal Fort'' ("Fort Royal") on Saint Marguerite Island between 1751 and 1753. On 16 January 1766, he married Amélie Panckoucke, sister of

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. He was the editor of the '' Journal étranger'' in the years 1760–1762 and of the '' Gazette littéraire d'Europe'' in the years 1764–1766. Suard was on intimate terms with the ''

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'' and regularly attended the salon of Baron d'Holbach, although he seems to have eschewed their more radical ideas. Suard was a close acquaintance with the Marquis de Condorcet, having stayed in residence with him back in 1772. In 1774 he was made a member of the

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, and later a state censor. For all his caution, Suard would later be harassed by both the Revolutionary and the Napoleonic regimes. His ''Mélanges de littérature'' were published in 1803–1805.

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* '' Académie française''
"Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard"

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Suard, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine 1733 births 1817 deaths Writers from Besançon Members of the Académie Française 18th-century French writers 18th-century French male writers French translators 18th-century French journalists 18th-century French translators