Louis Ireland de Lavau

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Louis Ireland de Lavau (also: Louis de Lavau ) (* 17th century ; † February 4, 1694 in Paris ) was a French nobleman, Roman Catholic clergyman, librarian and member of the Académie française .

life and work

Louis Irland de Lavau, whose year of birth is unknown, was the son of the royal court official Bonaventure Ireland, Lord von Lavau († 1672), whose family came from Scotland . An ancestor had become a professor at Poitiers University in the early 16th century . In 1667 the family was certified as belonging to the old nobility.

Louis Ireland was in the diplomatic service, passed into the clergy, became treasurer of the Church of Saint-Hilaire-de-Poitiers , apostolic protonotary and, thanks to his great knowledge of ancient languages, librarian at the Louvre in the service of the king after his father . As such, he was admitted to the Académie française (seat No. 35) in 1679 after he had succeeded in meeting Colbert's daughter Marie-Anne (1665-1750) with Louis de Rochechouart, duc de Mortemart (1663-1688), son of Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart and nephew of Madame de Montespan , about to get married.

He was one of the admirers of Pierre Corneille , financially involved in celebrations for his death in 1684 and also spoke when Corneille's nephew Fontenelle was accepted into the academy in 1691 . Jean Gallois and his successor Jean-François-Paul Le Fèvre de Caumartin honored Lavau in speeches. Scriptures have not survived from him.

literature

  • Jean Gallois : Response au discours de reception de l'abbé de Lavau Le May 4, 1679 [1]
  • Jean-François-Paul Le Fèvre de Caumartin: Discours prononcé le May 8, 1694 by Mr l'Abbé de CAUMARTIN, lorsqu'il fut reçu à la place de Mr. l'Abbé de Lavau. [2]
  • Alphonse Le Touzé de Longuemar (1803–1881): Essai historique sur l'Eglise royale et collégiale de Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand de Poitiers. In: Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de l'Ouest et des musées de Poitiers 20, 1857 (here: pp. 335–336).
  • René Hyacinthe Thibaudeau (1737-1813): Histoire du Poitou . Vol. 1. 1839, p. 53.

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personal data
SURNAME Ireland de Lavau, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lavau, Louis de; Lavau, Abbé de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman, Roman Catholic clergyman, librarian and member of the Académie française
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1694
Place of death Paris