Jean-Paul Bignon
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Biography
Born in Paris, Bignon was the grandson of the lawyer and statesman,
He organized the bureaux de la librairie and the committee of expert censors in 1699.[3]
Bignon worked with his uncle to prepare a new set of rules for the Academy, allowing for honorary membership, which were signed by the king in January 1699. The new rules, however, were rejected by its members. The rejection shocked him to such a degree that he refused to attend its meetings thereafter.[2]
Bignon was a patron of Antoine Galland, the first European translator of One Thousand and One Nights.[4] He was also the author of Les aventures d'Abdalla, fils d'Hanif (The adventures of Abdalla, son of Hanif), published in 1712–1714, a novel framed as the title character's search for the fountain of youth and composed of "stories of adventure and love" in which "great stress is laid upon the 'horrid,' the grotesque, the fantastic."[5]
His fame as a preacher is exemplified by two completely different
Publications
Bignon also contributed to the Médailles du règne de Louis le Grand, Sacre de Louis XV. From 1706 to 1714, he presided over the committee of men of letters who edited the Journal des sçavans, which position he took again in 1724, with the Abbé Pierre Desfontaines.[2]
References
- ^ Archives de l’Ancien Régime "Séminaires parisiens"
- ^ a b c d Académie francaise "Jean-Paul Bignon"(in French)
- ^ "Ancien Régime." (1970). The Book Collector 19 no 3 (autumn) 303-316.
- ^ "Jean-Paul Bignon". Encounters with the Orient in Early Modern European Scholarship. Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe (CHASE) at the Warburg Institute, London. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
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Conant, Martha Pike (1908), The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century, New York: ISBN 978-0-231-93896-9
- ^ "Fellow Details". Retrieved 17 January 2017.
- Louis Gabriel Michaud. "Jean-Paul Bignon". Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne : histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes avec la collaboration de plus de 300 savants et littérateurs français ou étrangers (in French) (2 ed.).
External links
- Works by or about Jean-Paul Bignon at Internet Archive
- WorldCat
- Biography – Bibliothèque nationale de France Archived 20 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine