Jacques Le Vavasseur

Jacques Le Vavasseur also Jacques baron Le Vavasseur (born November 24, 1876 in Amfreville , Département Calvados ; † unknown) was a French nobleman and the last owner of the literary estate of the French philosopher and encyclopaedist Denis Diderot , who passed on from the hands of his daughter Marie-Angélique de Vandeul (September 2, 1753 - December 5, 1824) came to the Le Vavasseur family through family ties.

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He was the son of Denis Charles Arthur Le Vavasseur (* 1837) and Julie Léopoldine Aubourg de Boury (* 1855). He had two siblings Robert Léon Le Vavasseur (* 1884) and Marie Le Vavasseur (1884-1887). In October 1902, Le Vavasseur married Marthe Anne Louise du Tillet (* 1878). His father Denis Charles Arthur Le Vavasseur was related to Denis Diderot. Abel François Nicolas Caroillon de Vandeul was married to the daughter of Diderot, Marie-Angélique Diderot (born September 2, 1753, † December 5, 1824). Their son Denis-Simon Caroillon de Vandeul (1775-1850) married Eugénie Cardon (1794-1875) in 1811. Her daughter Marie-Angélique Wilhelmine Caroillon de Vandeul (1813-1900) was married to Charles Louis baron Le Vavasseur († 1894) on May 5, 1834, the great-grandfather from the paternal line of Jacques Le Vavasseur. His great-grandmother Marie-Angélique Wilhelmine Caroillon de Vandeul (1813–1900), who came from his father's line, was the great-granddaughter of Denis Diderot.

After the last of the direct line de Vandeul died in 1911, Charles Denis and Albert Caroillon de Vandeul (1837–1911), propriétaire d'Orquevaux , the estate of Denis Diderot passed into the house of Le Vavasseur. The Baron Jacques Le Vavasseur owned the estate of Denis Diderot, which his daughter had passed on to her son. It originally belonged to the collection of Diderot's daughter Marie-Angélique de Vandeul.

The Romanist Herbert Dieckmann found it in 1948 at the Château des Ifs ( Département Seine-Maritime ). This estate, Fonds Vandeul, represents a milestone on the path of Diderot research, as it contains previously unknown material from the pen of Denis Diderot. It was presented under the title Inventaire du fonds Vandeul et inédits de Diderot , 1951. With this work Dieckmann laid the foundation for a new, complete and critical edition of Diderot, the Œuvres complètes from 1975. Dieckmann did not take on the editorial work alone, he was supported by Jean Fabre , Jacques Proust and Jean Varloot .

literature

• Herbert Dieckmann: Inventaire du fonds Vandeul et inédits de Diderot. Droz, Genève 1951

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Detailed biography of Marie-Angélique Diderots.
2. ↑ L'ÉPOPÉE DU FONDS VANDEUL. gallica.fr
3. ^ Biographical data on Denis Charles Arthur baron Le Vavasseur.
4. ^ Genealogy of the Caroillon de Vandeul family
5. ↑ Michèle Gauthier: Fund Diderot-Caroillon de Vandeul. Inventory. In: Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie. Year 1990, Volume 9, No. 9, pp. 171–179.