Alexandre Deleyre

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Analyse de la philosophie du chancelier François Bacon, vol. 1, 1756

Alexandre Deleyre (5 or 10 January 1726,

man of letters and translator from Latin. He was a friend of J.J. Rousseau, who used his translations of Lucretius for compositions.[2][3]

Biography

Alexandre Deleyre was the son of the

In 1754 he worked for the

stickpins (Épingle) and Fanatisme to the Encyclopédie; his article on Fortune was refused.[5] In his Dictionnaire philosophique, Voltaire would make use of his article on fanaticism
.

In June 1758 he left for

Eskimos, the concept of happiness and attacked global colonization. He disagreed with Diderot who went to Russia in 1773 on an invitation by Catherine the Great.[11] In 1776 he was depressed and Deleyre settled in Dammarie-lès-Lys
closer to nature.

In 1789 he was elected in

house-arrest. Some escaped and joined the counter-revolution
.

In 1795 he was elected in the Council of Ancients. In 1796 he published a rapport on the Corsican refugees, and on Palais Bourbon. He died on 20 Ventôse.[14]

Main works

Bibliography

  • Frank A. Kafker, Jeff Loveland: Antoine-Claude Briasson et l'Encyclopédie, Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, n° 35. (online)
  • Frank A. Kafker: Les Ventes de l'Encyclopédie. In: Sciences, musiques, Lumières. Ferney, Centre international d'étude du XVIIIe siècle, 2002.
  • Joachim Lebreton: Notice sur Deleyre (extraite des Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences morales). (1797) In: Friedrich Melchior Grimm: Correspondance littéraire.
  • George Streckeisen-Moultou: J. J. Rousseau. Ses amis et ses ennemis.] (186?)

References

  1. ^ ASSEMBLÉE NATIONALE
  2. ^ Mercure français, 6 avril 1797
  3. ^ The General Biographical Dictionary, p. 421
  4. ^ "DELEYRE | Dictionnaire des journalistes".
  5. ^ "DELEYRE | Dictionnaire des journalistes".
  6. .
  7. ^ Correspondance complète, Volume 5 by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  8. ^ Diderot Studies, Volume 4 edited by Otis Fellows
  9. ^ Parme et la France de 1748 a 1789
  10. , p. 11.
  11. ^ " Leyre : the Story of the voyages (t. XIX) to the History of the two Indies ", Yves Bénot bed, The Lights, slavery, and colonization. The Discovery, 2005, pp. 173-187.
  12. ^ ASSEMBLÉE NATIONALE
  13. ^ Mervaud Michel. L'envers du « mirage russe » : Deleyre et Chappe d'Auteroche. In: Revue des études slaves, tome 70, fascicule 4, 1998. pp. 837-850. DOI : https://doi.org/10.3406/slave.1998.6557 www.persee.fr/doc/slave_0080-2557_1998_num_70_4_6557
  14. ^ Nouvelles politiques, nationales et étrangères, 14 mars 1797

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