Didier-François d'Arclais de Montamy

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Didier-François d'Arclais de Montamy (* 1702 in Montamy , † 1765 in Paris ) was a French civil servant, naturalist and encyclopaedist .

Live and act

He was the son of Jean Joseph, sieur de Montamy d'Arclais, sgr de Montamy and Marie Françoise Guillard de La Madeleine. He was the first grand steward of the royal house , of Louis I de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans , premier maître d'hôtel du duc d'Orléans . D'Arclais de Montamy had a high academic education, but he was also interested in the fine arts (beaux-arts).

He translated from the German language by Johann Heinrich Pott the work Chymic Investigations, created in 1757 , which deal primarily with the Lithogeognosia or Erkäntniss and processing of the common, simpler stones and earth, the same of fire and light .

He wrote the article porcelaine for the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert .

In 1762 he was honored as Chevalier de Saint Lazare de Jérusalem.

Works (selection)

  • La Lithogéognosie ou Examen des pierres et des terres. Paris, 1753
  • Traité des couleurs pour la peinture en émail et sur la porcelaine. Chez G. Cavelier, Paris 1765

literature

  • Pierre Larousse: Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle. Vol. 11, Paris, Administration du grand Dictionnaire universel, p. 486.
  • Chemical investigations, which deal principally with the lithogeognosia or knowledge and processing of the common, simpler stones and earth, the same of fire and light. Voss, Bremen 1757

Web links

Wikisource: Didier-François d'Arclais de Montamy  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs of 17 volumes de "discours" de l'Encyclopédie (suite et fin). Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année 1990 Volume 8 Numéro 8 p. 104
  2. ↑ However, there are different information about the place of birth, sometimes Caen , and about the year 1703 or the year of death 1763
  3. ↑ Family genealogy
personal data
SURNAME Arclais de Montamy, Didier-François d '
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French civil servant, naturalist and encyclopaedist
DATE OF BIRTH 1702
PLACE OF BIRTH Montamy
DATE OF DEATH 1765
Place of death Paris