Charles-Étienne Pesselier

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Charles-Étienne Pesselier (born July 9, 1712 in Paris ; † April 24, 1763 ibid) was a French author , poet , Fermier général and encyclopaedist .

Live and act

First he studied in Paris at the Collège des Quatre Nations . Later he moved to the local Law Faculty Faculté de droit de Paris for three years jurisprudence to study. Afterwards he got a job at the Ferme générale where he worked successfully.

In his free time, Pesselier devoted himself to literature, writing poems, fables and plays. Some were performed in the Théâtre italien de Paris , such as his work École du Temps .

In his doubts about the author of the theory of taxation, the Doutes proposés à l'auteur de la théorie de l'impôt of 1761, he criticized the theories of Gabriel de Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau , and the Théorie de l'impôt de Mirabeau apart.

For the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert he wrote the articles Exemption , Ferme (Fermes du Roi (Bail des) et Fermes (cinq grosses)), Fermier général Finances , Financier .

Works (selection)

  • L'École du temps. , Comedy in one act in verse, was successfully performed at the Théâtre-Italien on September 11, 1738
  • Ésope au Parnasse. , Comedy in one act in verse, performed at the Théâtre-Français on October 14, 1739
  • Lettres d'Angélique à Thérèse. , 1739,
  • Fables nouvelles , Paris, 1748,
  • Pieces de théâtres et poésies fugitives. Paris, 1742
  • Dialogues des morts. 1753, 2 vol.
  • Esprit de Montaigne. 1753, 2 vol.
  • Azor et Ismène. Ballet. 1758
  • Idée générale des finances. 1759
  • Doutes proposés à l'auteur de la théorie de l'impôt. 1761
  • Lettres sur l'éducation. 1762, 2 vol.

literature

  • Alain Nabarra; Pesselier, Charles-Étienne (1712-1763) , In J. Sgard (Ed.): Dictionnaires des journalistes. Grenoble (1976), pp. 299-300
  • Bernard DELMAS: "L'anti-physiocratie des financiers: les Doutes de Charles-Etienne Pesselier on the theory of the impôt du marquis de Mirabeau et l'instruction générale" in: Les Voies De La Richesse? : La Physiocratie en Question (1760-1850) . Sous la direction de Gérard Klotz, Philippe Minard et Arnaud Orain, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, September 2017, pp. 79-104.

Web links

Wikisource: Charles-Étienne Pesselier  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kafker, Frank A .: Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie. Année (1990) Volume 8 Numéro 8 pp. 101-121, p. 110
personal data
SURNAME Pesselier, Charles-Etienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author, poet, poet, financier and encyclopedist
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1712
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1763
Place of death Paris