Jean Pestré
Jean Pestré also Abbé Pestré (* 1723 in Saint-Geniez-d'Olt ( Département Aveyron ), † 1821 in Paris ) was a French theologian and encyclopedist .
Live and act
He worked closely with the two Abbés Claude Yvon (1714–1791) and Jean-Martin de Prades . All three shared an apartment in Paris from 1751 and contributed with their work to the first volume of the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert , published in June 1751 . They helped draft the articles that were signed with the letter "C". Furthermore, the lemmas : Philosophy of Francis Bacon , baconisme ou Philosophy of Bacon , happiness, bonheur , Kabale cabale , defamation, calomnie , Campanella, Canadians, canadiens , Cardan, Cartesianism, cartésianisme and complacency , complaisance for volumes II and III by Abbé Pestré written.
He earned his living temporarily as a tutor and educator of the later lawyer Antoine Allut (1743-1794), who was guiollinated during the French Revolution .
literature
- Matthias Glötzner: Knowledge is Power - The French Enlightenment as reflected in the Encyclopédie. Grin-Verlag, Norderstedt (2007) ISBN 3-638-74490-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Devin Vartija: Racial Hierarchy and Natural Equality: Contradictions and ambiguities in Eighteenth Century Encyclopaedias. Utrecht University (2012), p.55 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 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. 110
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pestré, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French theologian and encyclopedist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1723 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Geniez-d'Olt , Aveyron department |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1821 |
| Place of death | Paris |