Jean-Baptiste Luton Durival

Jean-Baptiste Luton Durival (born July 4, 1725 in Saint-Aubin-sur-Aire , † February 14, 1810 in Heillecourt ) was a French historian , politician and encyclopaedist .

Live and act

His father was the Officier de la garde robe de Son Altesse royale (SAR) Jacques Durival. He was married to Anne Humblot in Commercy, the mother of the children, from October 29, 1712. Overall, the family consisted of three sons, an older son Nicolas Luton Durival , then Jean-Baptiste Luton and Claude Durival (1728-1805) and two daughters Catherine and Marie Anne Durival.

While Jean-Baptiste Luton Durival was State Secretary for the Council and Finance, secrétaire des conseils d'État et des finances under Stanislaus I. Leszczyński , the younger brother took over the post of first secretary for foreign affairs, premier secrétaire des affaires étrangères under the Duc de Étienne-François de Choiseul . In 1777 he was sent to Holland for official reasons . He was married to Louise Élisabeth Dufrène (1738-1819).

He wrote an article for the Encyclopédie about the art of war Art militaire . He was also a member of the Académie de Stanislas .

Works (selection)

Essai sur l'Infanterie Française. (1760)
Military details. (1758)
Le Point d'honneur
Histoire du règne de Philippe, traduite avec Mirabeau de l'anglais de Watson. Amsterdam, (1777)
Description of the Lorraine et du Barrois.
Recueil des observations météorologiques.

Web links

ARTFL Encyclopédie Project - Robert Morrissey, General Editor; Glenn Roe, Assoc. editor

Individual evidence

↑ Joseph-François Michaud; Louis-Gabriel Michaud: Biography universelle ancienne et modern: histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes. C. Desplaces, Paris (1855) p. 110.
↑ Family genealogy
↑ La Société Voltaire bénéficie du soutien du Center national du livre. Société Voltaire et Center international d'étude du XVIII ^e siècle (2012) ISBN 978-2-84559-096-0 , p. 65. (PDF; 2.0 MB)

personal data
SURNAME	Durival, Jean-Baptiste Luton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Durival, Jean Luton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French encyclopedist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	4th July 1725
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saint-Aubin-sur-Aire
DATE OF DEATH	February 14, 1810
Place of death	Heillecourt

[1] Joseph-François Michaud; Louis-Gabriel Michaud: Biography universelle ancienne et modern: histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes. C. Desplaces, Paris (1855) p. 110.

[2] Family genealogy

[3] La Société Voltaire bénéficie du soutien du Center national du livre. Société Voltaire et Center international d'étude du XVIII ^e siècle (2012) ISBN 978-2-84559-096-0 , p. 65. (PDF; 2.0 MB)