Louis-Georges de Bréquigny

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Louis-Georges de Bréquigny (also: Oudard Feudrix de Bréquigny ; * February 23, 1715 in Montivilliers ; † July 3, 1795 in Paris ) was a French historian, journalist and member of the Académie française and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres .

life and work

After attending school in Le Havre , Bréquigny moved to the Lycée Louis-le-Grand , where he taught René-Joseph de Tournemine . He studied law and oriental languages ​​and worked as an antiquarian and historian. In 1746 he was accepted into the recently founded Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen , after having worked at the Bibliothèque française ou Histoire littéraire de la France by Henri Du Sauzet (1687–1754) since 1735 . Around 1750 he went from Rouen to Paris and worked for the Journal des Savants from 1758 to 1784 .

He mainly earned money through the collection and publication of French historical sources, initially together with Jacob-Nicolas Moreau (1717–1803) and supported by the Minister Henri-Léonard Bertin . In 1759 he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, in 1772 to the Académie française (seat no. 20). On August 5, 1793, he took part in the last meeting of the Académie française before its dissolution. He died in 1795 at the age of 80.

Works

  • Histoire des révolutions de Gênes, depuis son établissement jusqu'à la conclusion de la paix de 1748 . 3 vols. Paris 1750–1752, 1753.
  • Vie des anciens orateurs grecs . 2 vols. Paris 1751–1752.
  • (Ed. With Louis-Guillaume de Vilevault) Ordonnances des rois de France de la troisième race . Vol. 10-14. Paris 1763-1790.
  • (Ed.) Strabonis Rerum geographicarum libri XVII . Paris 1763.
  • (with François Clément, 1714–1793) Catalogus manuscriptorum codicum Collegii Claromontani . Paris 1764.
  • (with others) Table chronologique des diplômes, chartes, titres et actes imprimés concernant l'histoire de France . 8 vols. Paris 1769–1876.
  • (Ed. With Gabriel de La Porte Du Theil, 1742–1815) Diplomata, chartae, epistolae, et alia documenta, ad res Francicas spectantia , ex diversis regni, exterarumque regionum archivis ac bibliothecis, jussu regis christianissimi, multorum eruditorum curis, plurimum ad id conferente congregatione S. Mauri, eruta. 3 vols. Paris 1791. Aalen 1969.
  • (Collector) Lettres de rois, reines et autres personnages des cours de France et d'Angleterre depuis Louis VII jusqu'à Henri IV tirées des archives de Londres . Ed. Jacques-Joseph Champollion -Figeac. 2 vols. Paris 1839–1847.

literature

  • René Poupardin: Catalog des manuscrits des collections Duchesne et Bréquigny . Leroux, Paris 1905. (biographical note, pp. XXI – XXVI, digitized in Gallica)

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personal data
SURNAME Bréquigny, Louis-Georges de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bréquigny, Louis George Oudard Feudrix de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian and member of the Académie française
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1715
PLACE OF BIRTH Montivilliers
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1795
Place of death Paris