Edmé-François Mallet

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Edmé-François Mallet also Abbé Mallet (born January 29, 1713 in Melun , † February 25, 1755 in Châteaurenard ) was a French theologian and encyclopedist .

Live and act

Edmé-François Mallet initially received his school education from the country pastor, curé of his birthplace, later he studied at a college of the Barnabites in Montargis , Collège des Barnabites de Montargis , before going to Paris . There he was the tutor of Ange Laurent Lalive de Jully (1725–1779), a future introducteur des ambassadeurs and honorary member of the Académie royale de peinture . In 1742 he received his licentiate , license at the Faculty of Theology of Paris, Faculté de théologie de Paris and was then aggregated at the Maison et société royale de Navarre . During his studies in Paris, he was also temporarily employed as tutor of Fermier général to Louis Denis Lalive de Bellegarde (1680–1751).

In 1744 he returned to his family in Melun. But he lived there in the house of the nobles of Rohan ( list of Rohan tribes) and stayed in the Princely House of Guémené Montbason as tutor of the later Cardinal Louis René Édouard de Rohan-Guéméné for a total of seven years. After his mother's death in 1751, he moved back to Paris, and took a chair in theology at the Collège de Navarre .

In 1753 he published an Essai sur les bienséances oratoires and on the Principes pour la lecture des Orateurs . For the encyclopedia of Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert he wrote more than a thousand articles focusing on trade (over 500 articles), theology, history (around 600 articles) and literature (around 200). However, these articles often obtained information from already given texts and reference works. Several of his articles, including those with historical content, were revised by Nicolas Lenglet Du Fresnoy and those with literary aspects were edited by Jean-François Marmontel .

Works (selection)

  • Principes pour la lecture des orateurs. (1753)
  • Essai sur les bienséances oratoires (1753)

literature

  • John Rogister: Louis XV and the Parlement of Paris, 1737-55. Cambridge University Press (2010) ISBN 0-5218-9336-4 p. 241
  • Dorothy Caiger Senghas: The Abbé Mallet: contributor to the Encyclopédie. Davis, University of California (1968), PhD thesis

Web links

Wikisource: Edme-François Mallet  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank A. 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 pp. 101-121
  2. ↑ 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 , pp. 289-290
personal data
SURNAME Mallet, Edmé-François
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mallet, Abbé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French theologian and encyclopedist
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1713
PLACE OF BIRTH Melun
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1755
Place of death Châteaurenard