Louis Camus Destouches
Louis Camus Destouches also called Destouches-Canon (* 1668 ; † March 11, 1726 in Paris ) was a French artillery officer, commissaire général d'artillerie and (likely) father of the later mathematician and encyclopaedist Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert .
Life
The Chevalier Louis Camus Destouches was an artillery officer in the French Royal Army, Armée royale française . He served under the kings Louis XIV and Louis XV. In 1690 he was made Knight of the Ordre de Saint-Lazare . Destouches was awarded the Ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis in 1720 , from 1725 he was appointed Commandeur .
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert came from a connection with Claudine Guérin de Tencin . When Destouches died in Paris in 1726, he left d'Alembert an orphan's pension of 1200 livres a year.
Works (selection)
- Instruction pour le service d'un canon à un siège. Metz 1720
Web links
- Information on Louis Camus Destouches in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ian Davidson: Voltaire: A Life . Open Road, New York 2012, ISBN 9781453226315 , p. 259.
- ↑ Ellen Judy Wilson, Peter Hanns Reill: Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment . Infobase Publishing, New York 2004, ISBN 9780816053353 , p. 10.
- ↑ Joseph Rosenblum: Frank N. Magill (Ed.): The 17th and 18th Centuries: Dictionary of World Biography , Volume 4. Routledge, London 2013, ISBN 9781135924140 , p. 30.
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SURNAME | Destouches, Louis Camus |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Destouches-Canon, Louis Camus |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French artillery officer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1668 |
DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1726 |
Place of death | Paris |