Charles Paillasson

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Charles Paillasson (* 1718 ; † 1789 ) was a French man of letters, calligrapher and encyclopedist .

Live and act

Paillason was born in 1718 as the son of a writer. He was a student of Louis Rossignol (1694-1739) and taught from 1738 to his art in a boarding school in Clamart . In 1756 he became a member of the Communauté des maîtres écrivains . From 1754 he lived in Paris on rue des Fosses Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois . In an effort to improve the reputation of calligraphy in France, he became a member of several Paris academies. Louis XV appointed him in 178 its first secretary, Premier secrétaire du Cabinet du roi . He wrote articles for the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert .

Works (selection)

  • Lʹ Arte di scrivere tratta dal Dizionario dʹarti e mestieri dellʹEnciclopedia metodica. Niccolo Bettinelli, Padova [Padua] 1796
  • Alphabets mineurs: Ronde, Batardes, Coulée. Regnault, Paris 1760
  • Art dʹEcrire réduit à des demonstrations vraies et faciles . Paris

literature

  • Jean-Gérard Lapacherie: Paillasson, expert écrivain, ou de l'art d'écrire . In Littérature 73 (1989) pp 116-128.
  • Claude Mediavilla: Histoire de la calligraphie française . Paris (2006) pp. 277-281
  • Belles écritures , [Catalog de vente à prix marqués]. Paris, Librairie Paul Jammes, 1992.
  • David P. Becker: The practice of letters: the Hofer collection of writings manuals 1514-1800. Harvard College Library, Cambridge (MA) (1997)
  • Stanley Morison; Carla Marzoli: Calligraphy: 1535-1885: a collection of seventy-two writing-books and specimens from the Italian, French, Low countries and Spanish schools, cataloged and described with upwards of 210 ill. Milano (1962)
  • Catalog of a fine collection of calligraphic books and manuscripts, the property of Mrs EF Hutton, New York City . - Catalog de vente, March 27, 1972, Sotheby & Co. 8 °

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Consortium of European Research Libraries. Charles Paillasson.
  2. ^ Hébrard Jean: Des écritures exemplaires: l'art du maître écrivain en France entre XVIe et XVIIIe siècle. Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée (1995) Volume 107 Issue 107-2 pp. 473-523
  3. ↑ 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. 108
personal data
SURNAME Paillasson, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French man of letters and encyclopedist
DATE OF BIRTH 1718
DATE OF DEATH 1789