Étienne Noël Damilaville

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Bust of Étienne Noël Damilaville by Marie-Anne Collot , Musée du Louvre

Étienne Noël Damilaville (born November 21, 1723 in Bordeaux , † December 13, 1768 in Paris ) was a French author and encyclopedist , he also served in various military and administrative functions of the Ancien Régimes .

Live and act

His father was Hugues Noël Damilaville (1699-1738), a used clothes dealer , marchand fripier he was married twice. His first wife and mother of Étienne Noël Damilaville was Clémence Fabry († 1733). Hugues Noël Damilaville married her on March 19, 1719. His second wife was Marie Catherine le Doux, both had been married since September 24, 1733. The second wife was the widow of Louis Goma Dumesnil.

Damilaville had a sister and a brother Catherine Damilaville (1722-1723) and François Damilaville († 1733), all three came from the first marriage of Hugues Noël Damilaville and died early.

After a short school education, Damilaville became a soldier and member of the royal guard, garde du corps du roi . He served in an elite cavalry unit of the Royal Guard, compagnie de cavalerie d'élite des Gardes du Corps, and took part in many campaigns during the War of the Austrian Succession . At the end of his military career, he took on administrative tasks in the tax and financial area of ​​the Ancien Régimes, so he was the first official of the office for the receipt of direct taxes or Vingtième , Premier commis au bureau de l'impôt du Vingtième . He worked in close connection with the contrôleur général des finances during the reign of Louis XV. That entitled him u. a. also read the correspondence of the Controller General of Finance, contrôleur-général des Finances .

He had an intense pen friendship with Voltaire . Etienne Noël Damilaville was one of Voltaire's most ardent correspondents and was very devoted to him and his views. The number of letters is estimated at 540 letters that Damilaville sent to Voltaire over about eight years. Correspondence begins in 1760. Intensive postal contact is also maintained with Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert and Nicolas-Claude Thiériot (1696–1772), a friend and advisor of Voltaire . There was also an intimate exchange of Enlightenment ideas on the circle around Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach and his coterie holbachique . He developed and in his reflections an anti-clerical stance.

Étienne Noël Damilaville died in 1768. A few months earlier he had an intimate relationship with Jeanne-Catherine Quinault also M me. de Maux, wife of François-Alixand de Maux (1714–1806) (a lawyer at Parlement , avocat au Parlement ), friend of Louise d'Épinay and niece of Jeanne-Françoise Quinault (1699–1783). After Damilaville's death, Diderot entered into an intimate relationship with her in the spring of 1769. Whereby Diderot M me. de Maux had known since around 1760.

For the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert he wrote the articles Population , Paix and Vingtième .

Works (selection)

  • L'honnêteté théologique (1767),

literature

  • Ghada Naman: La correspondance de Voltaire avec Étienne – Noël Damilaville. Artigas-Menant, Geneviève. Directeur de thèse Université Paris-Est. Dissertation 2009

Web links

Wikisource: Étienne Noël Damilaville  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography in French
  2. ↑ Projet Familles Parisiennes: FABRY, Clémence x Damilaville, Hugues Noël marchand fripier à Paris 1733-03-30
  3. ^ Genealogy of the Damilaville family Sources: Minutier Central, Etat civil parisien reconstitué, 2006 (PDF; 31 kB)
  4. ↑ Family genealogy
  5. ↑ Minutier Central, Etat civil parisien reconstitué
  6. ^ Biography and dates in French
  7. ↑ Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville ( Memento of July 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  8. ↑ Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs of dix-sept volumes de "discours" de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année 1989 Volume 7 Numéro 7 pp. 125-150
  9. ^ Gerhardt Stenger: Le dieu de voltaire. P. xxvii ( Memento of March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 186.65 KB)
  10. ↑ Pierre Lepape: Denis Diderot. A biography. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-593-35150-1 , pp. 362-363.
  11. ↑ La vie de Denis Diderot. (PDF; 3.2 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Damilaville, Étienne Noël
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French printer and encyclopaedist
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Bordeaux
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1768
Place of death Paris