Léger Marie Philippe Tranchant de Laverne

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Léger Marie Philippe Tranchant de Laverne (born October 24, 1767 at Borey Castle , Franche-Comté , † April 26, 1815 in Paris ) was a French dragoon officer , writer and translator.

Tranchant de Laverne attended the University of Göttingen at an early age to study public law and philosophy. Repelled by the course of the French Revolution , which he had initially welcomed, he joined the emigre corps of Louis V. Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé , in Koblenz . After the campaign of 1792 he went to Switzerland, where he married in 1795, and shortly afterwards to Saint Petersburg . There he entered the service of Prince Alexander Borisovich Kurakin . He returned to France in 1797, but fled to Switzerland again after the September coup before settling in Vienna. In 1800 he finally returned to France and worked in the Dépôt de la Guerre in Paris, where he made numerous translations of military-relevant writings from German into French. He also translated fiction. A translation of Kant's theory of purely moral religion. In consideration of pure Christianity (Riga 1796) with explanations, Tranchant de Laverne published in 1800 under the pseudonym Phil. Huldiger .

Works (selection)

  • Voyage d'un Observateur de la Nature et de l'Homme, dans les Montagnes du Canton de Friborg et dans various parties du Pays de Vaud en 1793. Paris 1804. ( online at Google Books )
  • Annibal fugitif. 2 vols. L. Collin. Paris 1808. ( online at Gallica )
  • Histoire du Feld-marechal Souvarof, liée a celle de son temps. Paris 1809. ( online at Google Books )

Web links

  • Catalog des Gentilshommes, qui ont fait leurs Preuves devant le Généalogistes du Roy pour être admis auy Écoles royales et au Service militaire. In: Nobiliaire universel de France ou Recueil général des Généalogies historiques des Maisons nobles de ce Royaume. Vol. 12, Paris 1817 ND 1876, Appendix p. 159 ( online at Google Books )
  • Moniteur des Dates contenant un million de renseignements biographiques, généalogiques et historiques. Vol. 3. Ed. By Édouard-Marie Oettinger. Dresden 1867, p. 105 ( online at Google Books )
  • Biography universelle, ou Dictionnaire historique contenant la nécrologie des hommes célèbres de tous les pays. Vol. 6 (TAB-ZYR). Furne Paris 1841, p. 284 ( online at Gallica )
  • Bibliography de la France or Journal général de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie. Vol. 5. Pillet. Paris 1815, p. 238 ( online at Google Books )
  • www.napoleon-series.org

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ E.g. August von Kotzebues Die Verleumder of 1796: Le Calomniateur. Drame en quatre actes et en prose. Paris 1801. ( online at Google Books )
  2. ^ Théorie de la pure religion morale, considérée dans ses rapports avec le christianisme. Ouvrage traduit de l'allemand, et augmenté d'éclairissemens et de considérations générales sur la philosophie critique. In: Le Conservateur 2 (1800), pp. 92-226 ( online at Google Books ); see. M. Vallois: La Formation de l'Influence Kantienne en France. Alcan. Paris 1920, p. 35 with note 4. ( online at Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Tranchant de Laverne, Léger Marie Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French dragoon officer, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Borey Castle, Franche-Comté
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1815
Place of death Paris