Louis Camus Destouches

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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 .

Claudine Guérin de Tencin was in a relationship with him

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ian Davidson: Voltaire: A Life . Open Road, New York 2012, ISBN 9781453226315 , p. 259.
  2. ↑ Ellen Judy Wilson, Peter Hanns Reill: Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment . Infobase Publishing, New York 2004, ISBN 9780816053353 , p. 10.
  3. ↑ Joseph Rosenblum: Frank N. Magill (Ed.): The 17th and 18th Centuries: Dictionary of World Biography , Volume 4. Routledge, London 2013, ISBN 9781135924140 , p. 30.
personal data
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