Esprit-Jean De Rome D'Ardène
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Esprit-Jean de Rome d'Ardène (3 March 1684, Marseille – 27 March 1748, Marseille aged 64) was an 18th-century French
fabulist Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a partic ...
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Life

Esprit-Jean de Rome d'Ardène was the son of Honoré de Rome sieur d’Ardène, "commissaire des
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et inspecteur des bois et forêts de Provence" who had the Château d’Ardène built in 1686 and Antoinette Leroy, daughter of Jean Leroy, ''conseiller du Roi et contrôleur général de la marine du
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et des galères de France''. His younger brother, father
Jean-Paul de Rome d'Ardène Father Jean-Paul de Rome d'Ardène (25 January 1690 – 5 December 1769) in ''domaine d'Ardène'' in Saint-Michel (modern Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) was an 18th-century French botanist. Origins Jean-Paul de Rome d'Ar ...
(1690-1769) was a well known botanist and agronomist, author of several reference books.


Publications

1747 sees the publication of the book ''Recueil de fables nouvelles, précédées d'un discours sur ce genre de poésie'' After Esprit-Jean de Rome d'Ardène died in 1748, his brother, father Jean-Paul de Rome d'Ardène, gathered his various writings in order to compile and publish them. A few years later, in 1767, a Marseille editor, Jean Mossy, published the ''Œuvres posthumes de Monsieur d'Ardene, associé a l'académie des Belles-Lettres de Marseille'' in four volumes


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''Recueil de fables nouvelles'' (1747) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ardene, Esprit-Jean de Rome d' French fabulists 18th-century French male writers Writers from Marseille 1684 births 1748 deaths