François Eudes de Mézeray

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François Eudes de Mézeray (* 1610 in Ri near Argentan , Normandy , † July 10, 1683 in Paris ) was a French writer and historian .

Life

François Eudes was born the son of a surgeon . During his stay in Paris, he adopted the addition de Mézeray, chosen according to a location . This appendix should cover his simple origins and reflect a better social position.

Mézeray studied at the University of Caen, then at the Sorbonne. In Paris he earned his living from satirical writings and other literary works.

For two years he was reluctantly a directing officer in the artillery in the army and took part in the campaigns in Flanders .

Mézeray became a historian of France and was accepted into the Académie Française in 1648 as the successor to Vincent Voiture . From 1675 he was (as successor to Valentin Conrart ) permanent secretary of the Académie. He played a major role in the creation of the dictionary of 1694.

One of his brothers was the Father and Founder of the Order of Eudists, John (Jean) Eudes .

Works

  • Histoire de France, depvis Faramond ivsqv'à maintenant , 3 vols., Paris 1643–1651
  • Abrégé chronologique ou Extraict de l '"Histoire de France" , 3 vols., Paris 1667–1668
  • Traité de la religion chrétienne (1640) (translation)
  • Histoire des Turcs depuis 1612 jusqu'en 1649 (1650) (translation)
  • List of small fonts [1]

literature

Older literature

  • General German real encyclopedia for the educated classes. Volume 6, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1824, p. 369
  • Ludwig Wachler: History of historical research and art since the restoration of literary culture in Europe. Volume 1, Edition 2, Johann Friedrich Röwer, Göttingen 1813, p. 586
  • Karl Friedrich Flögel: History of the comic literature. Volume 2, David Siegert, Liegnitz / Leipzig 1785, p. 586

Newer literature

  • Wilfred Hugo Evans, L'historien Mézeray et la conception de l'histoire en France au XVIIe siècle , Diss. Paris 1930
  • Charles Beaulieux , Observations sur l'orthographe de la langue françoise: transcriptions, commentaire et facs. Du ms. de Mezeray, 1673, et des critiques des commissaires de l'Académie; précédés d'une histoire de la gestation de la 1re éd. du Dictionnaire de l'Académie Françoise (1639-1694) , Paris 1951
  • Daniel de Larroque, La vie de François Eudes de Mézeray (1610–1683): ​​historiographe du roi, secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie française, in: Le Pays d'Argentan 82, 2010 (text from 1839)
  • Guy Verron, François Eudes de Mézeray. Histoire et pouvoir en France au XVIIe siècle , Milon-la-Chapelle 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Mézeray, François Eudes de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mézeray, Eudes de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1610
PLACE OF BIRTH Ri near Argentan ( Normandy )
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1683
Place of death Paris