Mathieu Marais
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| Born | 11 October 1665 King Louis XV reign |
| Genre | Memoir |
Mathieu[1] Marais (bapt. 11 October 1665, Paris-21 June 1737, Paris) was a French jurist and lawyer at the Parlement of Paris. He is later known by the edition of his Journal and Memoirs by Mathurin de Lescures.
Life
Mathieu Marais was born in
candlemaker.[2]
He spent twelve years with the
Nicolas Boileau, the Chancellor d'Aguesseau, the Cardinal Polignac, the Viscount Charles-Henri-Gaspard de Saulx of Tavannes, and also the financier Samuel Bernard
.
His greatest friend seems to have been
Henry, Duke of Guise and Margaret, Queen of Navarre among others.[4] His funeral took place at the same St Eustache Church where he was baptized.[5]
References
- ^ We also find Matthieu, but it only appear in 1823, in Ouvrage de La Fontaine and in the biographical dictionaries after his death.
- ^ Mathieu Marais, Journal and Memoirs, vol.1, 1863.
- ^ Mathieu Marais, in a letter to president Bouhier dated September 5, 1724, said that Jean Marais sometimes printed his name "Marays" or "Marais". J. Marais wrote Memoirs, and a Discours sur la détractation sur la légitime entre les enfants (Discourse on the Detraction on Legitimacy Between Children) in 1693. Mathieu didn't like this man, of whom he was "neither his relative nor his ally". (Cf. Correspondance littéraire du président Bouhier n°8 : Lettres de Mathieu Marais (1724-1737), vol.1, 1974.)
- Pierre and Firmin Didot, Nouvelle biographie générale, vol.33, 1860.
- ^ Louis Gabriel Michaud, Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, vol.26, 1860.
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