François Arnaud (
Comtat-Venaissin
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, 27 July 1721 – 2 December 1784) was a French clergyman, writer, and philologist.
Biography
Abbé of
Grandchamp and librarian to the count of Provence (the future
Louis XVIII of France
Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier; 17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824), known as the Desired (), was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815. Before his reign, he spent 23 ...
), he contributed to the ' and the ''Gazette littéraire de l'Europe''. From 1766, he directed ''
la Gazette
(), originally , was the first weekly magazine published in France. It was founded by Théophraste Renaudot and published its first edition on 30 May 1631. It progressively became the mouthpiece of one royalist faction, the Legitimists. Pascal ...
''. A friend of
Suard, he also attended the salons of
Mme Necker and
Mlle Lespinasse. Through Mlle Lespinasse's support he was elected to the
Académie française
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on 11 April 1771 and was received into it by
Châteaubrun on 13 May, making the subject of his reception speech ''On the character of ancient languages compared to the French language''. The same year he was admitted to the
Académie des Inscriptions
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. He collaborated with
Fréron and, alongside Suard, led the
Gluck
Christoph Willibald ( Ritter von) Gluck (; ; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire at ...
ists in their quarrel with the
Piccinnists. His collected works amount to 3 volumes.
References
External links
Academie-francaise biography*
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People from Carpentras
1721 births
1784 deaths
French classical scholars
French librarians
French philologists
18th-century French male writers
18th-century French journalists
Members of the Académie Française
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
French male non-fiction writers