Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet

Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet (born July 14, 1736 Reims , † June 27, 1794 Paris ) was a French writer .

He studied in Paris, the rights , and settled for bigger trips to Poland and Spain in 1762 as a lawyer in Paris down. He gained a great reputation for his Histoire du siècle d'Alexandre (Amsterdam 1762) and as a legal scholar through his eloquence ( Mémoires judiciaires , collection of his pleadings , 7 volumes), but also because of the ruthlessness of his language, many enemies and in 1774 he was the List of parliamentary advocates deleted. His Journal politique et littéraire , started in 1774, was suppressed by the government.

Linguet then went to Voltaire in Switzerland , where he began to publish his sensational and annoying Annales politiques civiles et littéraires (1777–1792, 19 volumes) and returned via Holland and England to France , where he was in 1780 as a result of new indictments the Bastille was stuck.

After his release (1782) he went back to London , then continued his Annales politiques in Brussels , but had to leave the Austrian Netherlands when he sided with the Brabant insurgents .

In 1791 he reappeared in Paris and defended the cause of the blacks on San Domingo before the barriers of the National Convention . The Terror Government later suspected him as an opponent of their rule; he was drafted, charged with flattering the tyrants in London and Vienna , and guillotined .

Of his numerous writings on law, history, politics, economics and fine sciences, the following are to be emphasized:

Histoire des révolutions de l'empire romain (Paris 1766, 2 volumes)
Théorie des lois civiles (Paris 1767, 3 volumes)
Histoire impartiale des Jésuites (Paris 1768, new edition 1824)
Mémoires sur la bastille (London 1783; new edition Paris 1864).

Web links

Literature by and about Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet in the German Digital Library
Works by Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet in the Gutenberg-DE project
Linguet on the Internet Archive

personal data
SURNAME	Linguet, Simon Nicolas Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French author
DATE OF BIRTH	July 14, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reims
DATE OF DEATH	June 27, 1794
Place of death	Paris