Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant
Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant, known as le Père Bougeant (4 November 1690,
) was a French Jesuit and historian.Bougeant entered the
Society of Jesus in 1706, taught classics in the College of Caen and Nevers and lived for a number of years in Paris until his death. His Amusement philosophique sur le language des bêtes (Philosophical Amusements on the Language of the Animals), published in 1737, attracted the censure of his superiors, leading to his brief exile from Paris. It was translated into English, Italian, and German.[1]
His historical works on the
Mémoires de Trévoux
.
References
- ^ Gray, T.; Gosse, E. (1885). The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse. The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse. A. C. Armstrong. p. 27. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
L'Amusement philosophique sur le langage des Bites, which had then just appeared, was the work of the Jesuit scribbler Guillaume Hyacinthe Bougeant (1690–1743), who was banished to La Heche for writing it, almost immediately after Gray ...
- Sommervogel, Carlos, Bibliothèque de la Campagnie de Jesus, I, 1873–85.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
