Pierre-Jean Grosley
Pierre-Jean Grosley (born November 21, 1718 in Troyes ; † November 4, 1785 ibid) was a French historian, encyclopaedist and man of letters.
Life
His father was Jean Grosley († 1732), a lawyer and bailiff, avocat et bailli in Saint Maure , and his mother Louise Barolet, a daughter of the merchant and councilor from Troyes den Pierre Barolet. He was the eldest of three surviving siblings: his sister Marie Elizabeth (* 1719) and his brother François Grosley (* 1724), known as Grosley de Lamurotte, later a lawyer at the court, avocat au Parlement.
He received his school education at the college of oratorians , collège de l'Oratoire de Troyes . He then went to Paris to law study. From 1737 to 1740 he studied law and worked as a clerk in various law firms. In 1745 and 1746 he took part in the Italian campaign during the War of the Austrian Succession in the staff of Marshal Maillebois . On his return, he published his experiences in a story called Observations sur l'Italie et les Italiens .
He won second place, after Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discours sur les sciences et les arts, in the writing competition awarded by the Académie des sciences, arts et belles-lettres de Dijon in July 1750.
Grosley used various pseudonyms: du Chasselas, Sogirel, Chapus, Vauraoult, Glaudot, Girodet de Saint-Florentin, Pancrace Floguy, Zorobabel, Malebranche, de Villedieu, le père Adri, Vadeboncoeur or le gentilhomme suédois. His numerous writings led to his being appointed associate member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1761 .
He was very fond of traveling, and so in the spring of 1765 he drove through the Kingdom of Great Britain and also to London , where he lived for six weeks. In his travelogue Londres , he praised English liberalism, an attitude that earned him several controversies after the travelogue was published in 1770. Grosley's other ventures took him to the north of France and Holland in the summer of 1772 . After returning to England again in 1765, he thought for a moment of marrying a friend's widow, but gave up.
Pierre Jean Grosley died in Troyes in his house on rue du Bourg-Neuf, where he was born, on November 4, 1785.
Works
- Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, Inscriptions, Belles-Lettres, Beaux-Arts, etc., nouvellement établie à Troyes. Liège (Troyes), 1744, at -8 °; Paris, 1756. 2 vol. in-12; (Troyes), 1768, in-12; Londres (Troyes), at X;
- Mémoire pour servir de supplément aux antiquités ecclésiastiques de Troyes, by MN Camusat.Troyes, 1750, in-12, réimprimé plusieurs fois;
- Recherches pour servir à l'histoire du Droit français, Paris, 1752, in-12;
- Vie de Pierre Pithou, etc. Paris, 1756, 2 vol. in-12;
- Ephémérides troyennes (1757–1768), Troyes, 12 vol. in-32;
- Nouveaux Mémoires ou observations sur l'Italie et sur les Italiens, par deux gentilshommes suédois, Londres, 1764, 3 vol. in-12; 1770, 5 vol. in-12; Londres, Lausanne, 1770, 3 vol. in-12; 1774, 4 vol. in-12;
- Mémoires sur les campagnes d'Italie de 1745 et 1746, Amsterdam, 1777, in-8 °;
- Vie de M. Grosley, écrite par lui-même, etc., Londres et Paris, 1787, in-8 °;
- Mémoires historiques et critiques pour l'histoire de Troyes, Troyes, 1811-1812, 2 vol. in-8 °
- Oeuvres inédites (Mémoires sur les Troyens célèbres et Voyage en Hollande), Paris, 1813, 3 vol. in-8 ° (Le voyage en Hollande forme le 3e volume).
- Londres. Lausanne (1770), online
Web links
literature
- Émile Socard: Biography of the personnages de Troyes et du département de l'Aube. Léopold Lacroix, Paris 1882, pp. 180-181
- Pat Rogers: The Context of English Literature: The eighteenth century. Methuen, London (1978) ISBN 0-416-56190-X , p. 180
Web links
- Literature by and about Pierre-Jean Grosley in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dictionnaire des journalistes (1600-1789). Detailed biography in French, online
- ↑ 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 pp. 142–143
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grosley, Pierre-Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zorobabel, Sadoc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French man of letters, lawyer and encyclopaedist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1718 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Troyes |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 4, 1785 |
| Place of death | Troyes |