Joseph-François-Edouard de Corsembleu de Desmahis

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Joseph-François-Édouard de Corsembleu Sieur de Desmahis (born March 1, 1723 in Sully-sur-Loire , † February 25, 1761 in Paris ) was a French playwright , encyclopaedist and writer .

Live and act

He was the son of the Président de la Chambre of the sovereign Principality of Henrichemont , principauté souveraine d'Henrichemont et de Boisbelle, in addition, lawyer and tax advisor in the Duchy of Sully-sur-Loire and mayor of his city. In 1740 de Desmahis moved to Paris. He wrote various dramas and regularly attended the Paris salons including that of Louise d'Épinay . Desmahis admired Voltaire and Denis Diderot . He was temporarily sponsored by the first.

For the Encyclopédie he wrote the article fat und femme . In it, de Desmahis describes the woman in accordance with the values ​​of the time, emphasizing her moral virtues as well as the phenomena of happiness and health of families that lie in her care.

Works (selection)

  • Le Voyage de Saint-Germain.
  • L'Heureux amant qui sait te plaire. (1750)
  • Oeuvres choisies de M. Desmahis. Didot, (1813)

Web links

literature

  • F. Bacquié: Les inspecteurs des manufactures sous l'Ancien Régime, 1669–1791. Toulouse, (1927)
  • Anatole Basseville: Un poète orléanais. De Corsembleu Desmahis. Orléans, 1906.
  • Roger de Laurière: Desmahis de Corsembleu, poète et auteur dramatique orléanais. Bulletin de la Société archéologique et historique de l'Orléanais, nouvelle série, tome III, n ° 24, 4ème trimestre 1964, pp. 216–217.
  • Knud Haakonssen: The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy. Cambridge Univ. Press (2007) ISBN 0-521-86743-6 p. 204

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Consortium of European Research Libraries. Entry via Joseph-François-Edouard de Corsembleu de Desmahis
  2. ↑ Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs of dix-sept volumes de "discours" de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année (1989) Volume 7 Numéro 7 pp. 125-150
  3. ↑ Biographie universelle ou Dictionnaire historique contenant la nécrologie des hommes célébres, historie générale des peuples grands évènements politiques, etc.etc. par une Société de gens de Lettres. Furne, libr. (1833) p. 841
personal data
SURNAME Desmahis, Joseph-François-Edouard de Corsembleu de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Desmahis, Joseph-François-Édouard de Corsembleu Sieur de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French playwright, encyclopaedist and man of letters
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Sully-sur-Loire
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1761
Place of death Paris