Claude-François Fraguier

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Claude-François Fraguier (born August 27, 1666 in Paris ; † May 3, 1728 ibid) was a French man of letters, scholar, classical philologist, neo-Latin author and member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the Académie française.

life and work

Fraguier, second son of the Guard Captain Florimond Fraguier Graf von Dennemarie , was born in Paris in 1666. The date 1660 mentioned in some sources is not plausible in view of the other dates of life. He attended the Jesuit college in Clermont , where he had teachers Jacques La Baune, Joseph de Jouvancy (1643-1719), René Rapin , Charles de La Rue (1643-1725) and Jean Commire (1625-1702). In 1683 he joined the Jesuits as a novice and was sent to Caen as a teacher . There he came into contact with Jean Regnault de Segrais and Pierre Daniel Huet and worked so deeply into Latin and Greek literature that this interest gained the upper hand over theology. In 1694 he resigned from the Society of Jesus on good terms and lived in Paris as a writer and scholar. In 1705 he became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , in 1706 of the editorial committee of the Journal des sçavans and in 1707 of the Académie française (seat no. 11). The Chancellor Pontchartrain hired him as a censor (with salary).

Obviously from overwork, he contracted a weak throat muscle, which forced him to support his head with his free hand while writing so that it would not hang at an angle, a condition that could not be cured by any doctor. In 1717 he inherited the property of his brother, who had died childless, but had only trouble with it and was so unhappy that he was in debt after 10 years. He died in 1728 at the age of 61.

Fraguier summed up Plato's philosophy on 30 pages in his Latin work Mopsus, sive Schola platonica de hominis perfectione (1717, published 1721). The plan to translate Plato into Latin failed because of his physical infirmity. Fraguier's Neo-Latin poetry was published in 1729 (together with Huets) by the Abbé d'Olivet.

Works (selection)

  • Apes. Fabula . Paris 1705. (dedicated to Jean-Paul Bignon)
  • Research on the vie de Q. Roscius le comédien . Paris 1717. (in: Histoire de l'Académie royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres . Vol. 4. 1723, pp. 437–456)
  • Mopsus, sive Schola platonica de hominis perfectione . Paris 1721.
  • (With Pierre Daniel Huet) Carmina . Edited by Abbé d'Olivet. Didot, Paris 1729. (Fraguier: pp. 187–342)
  • Dell 'Antichità della pittura, dissertazione dell' abate Fraguier . Venice 1752.

literature

  • Histoire de l'Académie royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres . Vol. 7. Paris 1733, pp. 394-399. [1]
  • Evrard Titon du Tillet: Le Parnasse François . Vol. 1. Cogniard fils, Paris 1732, pp. 622-624.

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personal data
SURNAME Fraguier, Claude-François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French man of letters, scholar, classical philologist, neo-Latin author, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the Académie française
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1666
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1728
Place of death Paris