Antoine René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson

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Antoine René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson ( Maurice Quentin de La Tour )

Antoine René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson (born November 12, 1722 in Valenciennes , † August 13, 1787 in Paris ) was a French diplomat , minister of state, bibliophile and Romance scholar .

life and work

Antoine René de Voyer, marquis de Paulmy d'Argenson (also: Marc Antoine René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson), usually called Marquis de Paulmy , was the son of René Louis d'Argenson and the nephew of Marc-Pierre d ' Argenson . He was French Ambassador to Switzerland (1748–1751), Secretary of State (1751–1757), Minister of War (1757–1758), Ambassador to Poland (1759–1765) and Venice (1767–1768), then Minister of State in retirement.

Paulmy was a passionate bibliophile. He collected more than 50,000 precious books and transformed the arsenal in Paris, where he lived, into one of the most important libraries in France ( Library of the Arsenal ). As a private scholar, he filled the books with numerous scholarly notes and surrounded himself with a host of collaborators (including Louis-Élisabeth de la Vergne de Tressan , Pierre Jean-Baptiste Legrand d'Aussy , Charles-Joseph Mayer and André-Guillaume Contant d'Orville ), which under his direction published the Bibliothèque universelle des romans in 112 volumes (Paris 1777–1789) and the Mélanges tirés d'une grande bibliothèque in 69 volumes (1779–1787) and made important contributions to medieval studies and literary historiography.

Paulmy was (as successor to Gabriel Girard in the armchair 11) a member of the Académie française (1748–1787), the Académie des sciences (1764) and the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres .

literature

  • Danielle Muzerelle: Les Fonds médiévaux de la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. In: Pluteus. 1, 1983, ISSN  0394-4883 , pp. 177-189.
  • Martine Lefebvre (Lefèvre): Antoine-René d'Argenson, Marquis de Paulmy (1722–1787). In: Bulletin d'Information de l'Association des Bibliothécaires Français. No. 137, 1987, ISSN  0004-5365 , p. 37 .
  • Martine Lefèvre, Danielle Muzerelle: Antoine René d'Argenson, marquis de Paulmy (1722–1787), fondateur de la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris 1987, (Exposition pour le 2e centenaire de sa mort le 13 août 1987).
  • Martine Lefèvre, Danielle Muzerelle: La bibliothèque du marquis de Paulmy. In: Claude Jolly (ed.): Les bibliothèques sous l'Ancien Régime. 1530–1789 (= Histoire des bibliothèques françaises. 2). Éditions du Cercle du librairie, Paris 1988, 2008, ISBN 978-2-7654-0968-7 , pp. 300-315.

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predecessor Office successor
François-Dominique Barberie de Saint-Contest French ambassador to Switzerland
1748–1751 		Théodore Chavignard
Marc-Pierre d'Argenson French Minister of War
1757–1758 		Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet de Belle-Isle
Charles-François de Broglie French envoy to Poland
1762–1765 		Jean Antoine Monnet
François de Baschi French ambassador to Venice
1767–1768 		Nicholas Adam
personal data
SURNAME Paulmy d'Argenson, Antoine René de Voyer de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Argenson, Antoine René de Voyer de Paulmy d '; Paulmy, marquis de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat, minister of state, bibliophile and Romance scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Valenciennes
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1787
Place of death Paris