Jean-Baptiste Pâris de Meyzieu

Jean-Baptiste Pâris de Meyzieu (born May 16, 1718 in Paris , † September 6, 1778 in Paris) was a French lawyer, author and encyclopedia .

Life

He was the son of Claude Jean-Baptiste Pâris de la Montagne (approx. 1670-1745) and Elisabeth de la Roche. As the penultimate child of a total of five other siblings, he had four brothers and a sister. Claude Geoffroy Pâris (* 1709), Antoine in Pâris d'Illins, Pierre Pâris de la Tour (1713–1730), Anne-Emilie Pâris de la Montagne (* 1716) and François Joseph Moirans Pâris (1719–1744). He was also the nephew of the financier Joseph Pâris Duverney (1684-1770).

Jean-Baptiste Pâris de Meyzieu resigned from the military service with the rank of lieutenant colonel, lieutenant colonel . In 1738 he was employed as a lawyer at the Parlement of Paris, and later he was an advisor to the Parlement. In 1739 he became a commissioner at the Palace of Justice, commissaire de requêtes du Palais de Justice .

At times he worked as administrator of the École royale militaire , which was founded with the financial help of his uncle Joseph Pâris Duverney. He wrote about this military school for the Encyclopédie . The sale of his library to this fameux bibliophile brought in 54,000 livres .

He was on friendly terms with Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais .

Works

Lettre sur l'Ecole militaire. London 1755

literature

Ferdinand Hoefer : Nouvelle Biographie générale. t. 39, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1862, p. 208

Web links

Wikisource: Jean-Baptiste Pâris de Meyzieu - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Meyzieu, Jean-Baptiste Pâris de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French lawyer, author and encyclopaedist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 16, 1718
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	September 6, 1778
Place of death	Paris

[1] Frank Arthur 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, p. 108

[2] Family genealogy

[3] Family Relationships Chart