Claude Yvon

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Claude Yvon also Abbé Yvon (born April 15, 1714 in Mamers , † November 1791 in Paris ) was a French theologian and encyclopedist .

Live and act

He was the son of a merchant from Mamers. Before he went to Paris, he received the minor church ordinations to the Abbé . In Paris he made his living more or less well as a teacher or better a tutor at the Sorbonne, where he prepared students for their exams. He also wrote several works anonymously. His first texts that he published under his own name were the articles in the encyclopedia so about the soul, âme , atheism, athéisme , god dieu and a few other lemmas.

This apparently harmless article about the soul caught the attention of the official inspectors for publications, such as that of the Advocate General, Joseph Omer Joly de Fleury (1715-1810) avocat général au Grand Conseil (1737-1746). Joly de Fleury wrote a violent indictment against this article, which in his opinion was an expression of pure atheism. From 1751 Yvon shared an apartment with the two Abbés Jean Pestré and Jean-Martin de Prades , all three of whom were contributors to the first volume of the Encyclopédie , published in June 1751 . Under threat of a lettre de cachet , he fled to the Republic of the Seven United Provinces or Holland in 1752 .

There he found a job as a proofreader at Marc-Michel Rey's publishing house as a proofreader. In the records of an Amsterdam Masonic Lodge, Concordia Vincit Animos Amsterdam , he was included in their list.

From the Dutch Republic he moved to Berlin for a short time .

He then moved to Liège with Pierre Rousseau (1716–1785) . Here Yvon supported him in creating the Journal encyclopédique .

In 1754 his work Yvon La Liberté de conscience resserrée dans les bornes légitimes was published in London in three volumes. In this work he put forward the thesis that all religions are naturally intolerant and are compelled to attack their enemies, but that civil society should be tolerant of those who disagree with religious leaders. Yvon returned to France at the beginning of 1762.

At the beginning of 1767, Yvon became editor of the Journal de l'Agriculture . In 1778 the first two volumes of Yvon on church history appeared, both volumes were published in Amsterdam, the title was Discours et généraux raisonnés sur l'histoire de l'Église . Ten more volumes were to follow, but were no longer published. Because already the first two volumes drew the attention of the police and censorship authorities, so it was consequently a ban on the publication of the third volume. This approach received a response in the press, and Yvon offered to make any corrections required by the censors, but to no avail.

Yvon died in Paris in November 1789. Until his death he was the librarian of Marc-René de Voyer d'Argenson (1722–1782) at his Château des Ormes .

Works

  • Liberté de conscience resserrée dans des bornes légitimes , London, 1754–55, 3 parts, in-8 °.
  • Two Lettres à Rousseau, pour servir de response à sa lettre contre le mandement de l'archevêque de Paris ; Amsterdam, 1763, in-8 °.
  • Discours généraux et rationnés sur l'histoire de l'Église , Amsterdam (Paris), 1768, 3 vol. in-12.
  • Accord de la philosophie avec la religion, prouvé par une suite de discours relatifs à treize époques , Paris, 1776, in-12, et 1782 ou 1785, 2 vol. in-8 °.

literature

http://enccre.academie-sciences.fr/encyclopedie/enc_collaborateurs_yvon.php

Web links

Wikisource: Claude Yvon  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data
  2. ^ Dictionnaire Journalistes. Claude Yvon
  3. ↑ Holzhey, Helmut; Mudroch, Vilem; Ueberweg, Friedrich; Rohbeck, Johannes: Outline of the history of philosophy: The philosophy of the 18th century. 2 half floors. Schwabe-Verlag, Basel (2008) ISBN 978-3-7965-2445-5 , p. 295
  4. ^ Hauréau, Barthélemy: Yvon Claude. Histoire littéraire du Maine. Dumoulin (1877). Volume 3. p. 212ff.
  5. ^ Hauréau, Barthélemy: Yvon, Claude. In Histoire littéraire du Maine, Volume 3. Dumoulin. (1877). P. 212ff.
  6. ^ Jacob, Margaret C .: The origins of freemasonry: facts & fictions. University of Pennsylvania Press (2007) ISBN 0-8122-1988-0 . P. 149
  7. ↑ Brown, Stewart Jay; Tackett, Timothy: Enlightenment, reawakening, and revolution, 1660-1815. Cambridge University Press (2006) p. 277. ISBN 0-521-81605-X .
  8. ↑ Brief publishing history of the Journal de l'Agriculture
  9. ↑ http://enccre.academie-sciences.fr/encyclopedie/enc_collaborateurs_yvon.php
  10. ↑ Archives de l'évéché de Coutances, Archives départementales de la Manche, 5E2993
personal data
SURNAME Yvon, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French theologian and encyclopedist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1714
PLACE OF BIRTH Mamers
DATE OF DEATH November 1789
Place of death Paris