Jean-Noël Paquot
Jean-Noël Paquot (1722–1803) was a Belgian
Life
Paquot was born in
On 1 February 1769 he was elected to the Société littéraire de Bruxelles, a precursor of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium.[3]
In 1787 he moved to Liège to collaborate on an abortive project to found a university there. He died in Liège in 1803.
Works
He wrote a book encompassing the entire literary history of the Low Countries, in all languages, entitled Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire littéraire des dix-sept provinces des Pays-Bas, de la principauté de Liège et de quelques contrées voisines ("Memoirs for the literary history of the seventeen provinces of the Netherlands, the Principality of Liege, and some neighboring countries"), Leuven, 1763-1770, 18 volumes in octavo or in three folio volumes, Leuven, 1765-1770.
References
- ^ Victor Chauvin, "Paquot (Jean-Noël)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 16 (Brussels, 1901), 597-609.
- ^ Bruno Bernard, "Le gouvernement des Pays-Bas autrichiens et l’Université de Louvain", C@hiers du CRHiDI. Histoire, droit, institutions, société, vol. 29 (2008), p. 179.
- ^ "Jean Noël Paquot", L'Académie / Who's who ? – Accessed 9 June 2017.
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