Nicolas-Léopold Liébault

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Nicolas-Léopold Liébault (* 1723 Nancy ; † 1795 ) was a French officer, author and encyclopaedist .

Live and act

He was the son of a lawyer and was born in Nancy. His brother was the Nicolas-François-Xavier Liébault (1716–1800). Liébault edited the articles former , dresser , and fuite for the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert .

The two brothers served as officers in the French Régiment Royal-Lorraine during the beginning of the Seven Years' War from around 1756 to 1758 .

literature

  • Jacques Proust: Diderot et l'Encyclopédie. Albin Michel, Paris 1995 p. 516
  • English Showalter: Correspondance de M me de Graffigny. Voltaire Foundation, Oxford 1985. pp. 28-29

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Also Nicolas-François Liébault. The encyclopedist may also be the brother Nicolas-François-Xavier Liébault (1716–1800)
  2. ↑ Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs of dix-sept volumes de "discours" de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année 1989 Volume 7 Numéro 7 p. 149
  3. ↑ General Index of the Correspondance de M me de Graffigny, online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk  
personal data
SURNAME Liébault, Nicolas-Léopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liébault, Nicolas-Léopold-François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French officer, author and encyclopedist
DATE OF BIRTH 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Nancy
DATE OF DEATH 1795