Nicolas de Malézieu

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Nicolas de Malézieu (also: Malezieu ; born September 7, 1650 in Paris ; † May 4, 1727 in Châtenay ) was a French mathematician , Graecist , author, translator and member of the Académie des Sciences and the Académie française . He is not to be confused with his son of the same name (1674–1748), Bishop of Lavaur .

life and work

Malézieu grew up fatherless. He was an early talent, could read and write at the age of 4 and graduated from the Jesuit college at twelve. He was educated universally, from mathematics to Hebrew. Since he also had an open and cheerful mentality, the best minds enjoyed dealing with him, including Bossuet and in Châlons-en-Champagne , where he had gone for family reasons for ten years, Bishop Félix Vialart de Herse (1613– 1680).

In 1681, at the suggestion of Bossuets, he became tutor to the eleven-year-old Duke of Maine , son of Louis XIV , and lived at court at the same time as Racine , Boileau and Fénelon . Since the Duke was also Prince of the Dombes , Malézieu led the affairs of government for him as Chancellor of the Dombes, just as he, as Secretary General of the Swiss Guard in France, filled the Duke's role as its Colonel General. In 1696 he also became a math teacher to the Duke of Burgundy (1682–1712), the grandson of Louis XIV.

When the Duke of Maine, who tended to be scholarly rather than military, married Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon-Condé (1676–1753) in 1692 , Malézieux found a patroness in her, too, who was highly educated. Even before he became one of the main designers of court salon life together with Charles-Claude Genest at their literary court in Sceaux , his country house in Châtenay (not far from Sceaux) from 1699–1706 was a place where people also met in a more informal way and a theater performed.

Malézieu married in 1672 the same age Françoise Faudel de Fauveresse (1650-1741). The couple had five children. Malézieu was admitted to the Académie des sciences in 1699 and in 1701 to the Académie française (seat No. 33). He translated Iphigenia with the Taurern of Euripides into prose and wrote smaller French pieces for court life in Sceaux. He died at the age of 76. In Châtenay-Malabry, the Allée Malézieu commemorates him and his family.

Works

mathematics

  • Nouveau traité de la sphere Ou tout ce qui regarde cette science est expliqué si nettement, que les moins intelligens le peuvent aisément comprendre sans le secours d'aucun maistre. Paris 1679.
  • Eléments de géométrie de monseigneur le duc de Bourgogne . Boudot, Paris 1705, 1722, 1729, 1735.
    • (Latin) Serenissimi Burgundiae ducis Elementa geometrica ex Gallico sermone in Latinum translata ad usum Seminarii Patavini. Accessere quatuor propositiones ad trigonometriam apprime utiles. Insuper Introductio ad algebrae applicationem ad geometriam, auctore Guisneo, nunc primum Latine reddita. Padua 1713, 1734.

Other works

  • (With others) Les divertissements de Seaux . Ganeau, Paris 1712.
    • Suite des Divertissemens de Seaux contenant des chansons, des cantates & autres pieces de poësies. Avec la description des nuits qui s'y sont données, & les comedies qui s'y sont jouées. Ganeau, Paris 1725.
  • (Translator) Iphigénie en Tauride . 1713. (prose translation)
  • Polichinelle demandant une place dans l'Académie. Comedie. In: Pièces échappées du feu. Recueil de diverse pieces en prose et en vers . Edited by Albert-Henri de Sallengre. Piacenza 1717. (8 uncounted pages)
  • Apologie de l'édit du mois de juillet 1714 et de la déclaration du 23e may 1715 , qui donnent aux princes légitimés et à leurs enfants et descendants mâles à perpétuité, nés et à naître en légitime mariage, le titre, les honneurs et le rang de princes du sang, et le droit de succéder à la couronne après tous les princes légitimes; ou lettre justificative d'un magistrat à un abbé pour MM. les duc du Maine et comte de Toulouse. no place. without year.
  • Les amours de Ragonde. Comedie en musique , representée devant le Roi, sur le Théatre des Petits Appartemens à Versailles. Paris 1749.

literature

  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle : Éloge de M. de Malézieu. In: Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences - Année 1727 . Imprimerie royale, Paris 1729, pp. 145–151. (online on Gallica) .
  • Catherine Cessac and Manuel Couvreur (eds.): La Duchesse du Maine (1676–1753). Une mécène à la croisée des arts et des siècles . Ed. de l'Université de Bruxelles, Brussels 2003.
  • Catherine Cessac: Les fêtes de Châtenay (1699–1706). Nicolas de Malézieu, un nouveau Molière pour la duchesse du Maine. In: Ombres de Molière. Naissance d'un mythe littéraire à travers ses avatars du XVIIe siècle à nos jours. Ed. Martial Poirson. Armand Colin, Paris 2012, pp. 127–144.
  • Jean-Philippe Grosperrin: Résurrections princières de la tragédie grecque à la fin du règne de Louis XIV. L'Électre de Longepierre (1702) et l'Iphigénie en Tauride de Malézieu (1713). In: Anabases 2, 2005, pp. 115-145. ( doi: 10.4000 / anabases.1620 )
  • Pierre M. Conlon: Le Siècle des Lumières. Bibliography chronologique. Index des auteurs F – M, 1761–1789 . Librairie Droz, Geneva 2009, p. 347. (Sophronime Ds 902)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gazette de France 3, 1768, p. 31.
personal data
SURNAME Malézieu, Nicolas de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malezieu, Nicolas de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French mathematician, Graecist, author, translator and member of the Académie des sciences and the Académie française
DATE OF BIRTH 7th September 1650
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1727
Place of death Châtenay