André Morellet

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André Morellet
Réfutation de l'ouvrage qui a pour titre Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds , 1770

André Morellet (born March 7, 1727 in Lyon , † January 12, 1819 in Paris ) was a French economist , encyclopedist and writer, one of the last of the philosophes of the Enlightenment .

Morellet was first trained by the Jesuits in Lyon and later at the Sorbonne . Voltaire called him L'Abbé Mords-les for his quick-witted and biting joke . His most important works are a short pamphlet in response to Palissot's bizarre piece Les Philosophes (which earned him a short stay in the Bastille for allegedly defamation of Palissot's patroness, Princess Robeck), and a response to Ferdinando Galiani's Commerce des blês (1770) . The Enlightenment was a member of Madame Geoffrin's salon , participated in an eulogy for her and published her works. He was also a frequent guest of Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach and his circle, the Coterie holbachique .

Later he worked in quasi-diplomatic relations with English statesmen. In 1785 he was retired and accepted into the Académie Française . A year before his death, he published four volumes of Mélanges de littérature et de philosophie du XVIII siècle , essentially compiled from his earlier publications. After his death, his valuable Mémoires sur le XVIIIe siècle et la Révolution (1821) appeared.

Works (selection)

  • Théorie du paradoxe (1775)
  • Éloges de Madame Geoffrin , contemporaine de Madame du Deffand , par MM. Morellet, Antoine Léonard Thomas (1732–1785) et d'Alembert , suivis de lettres de Mme Geoffrin et à Mme Geoffrin, et d'un Essai sur la conversation (1818 )
  • Mélanges de littérature et de philosophie du XVIII e (1818)
  • Mémoires de l'abbé Morellet, de l'Académie française, sur le dix-huitième siècle et sur la Révolution (1821). Réédition: Mercure de France, Paris, 1988. Texts en ligne (extraits annotés): c18.net
  • Lettres inédites de l'abbé Morellet, sur l'histoire politique et littéraire des années 1806 et 1807, pour faire suite à ses Mémoires (1822)

Web links

Wikisource: André Morellet  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Arthur Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs of 17 volumes de "discours" de l'Encyclopédie Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie. Année (1990) Volume 8 Numéro 8, p. 106
  2. ↑ André MORELLET. Académie française
personal data
SURNAME Morellet, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French economist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1727
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1819
Place of death Paris