Simon-Nicholas Henri Linguet

Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet (* July 14, 1736 Reims, † June 27, 1794 Paris) was a French writer.

He studied in Paris, the rights, and settled for bigger trips to Poland and Spain in 1762 as a lawyer in Paris down. He gained through his Histoire du siècle d' Alexandre ( Amsterdam 1762) and as a legal scholar by his eloquence ( Mémoires judiciaires, collection of his speeches, 7 volumes) a great reputation, but also by the ruthlessness of his language many enemies and was in 1774 by the list of parliamentary advocates deleted. His 1774 politique et littéraire begun Journal was suppressed by the government.

Linguet then went to to Switzerland to Voltaire, there began the publication of his great stir and nuisance -causing Annales politiques Civil and littéraires (1777-1792, 19 volumes) and returned via Holland and England back to France, where he in 1780 as a result of new charges the Bastille was inserted.

After his release ( in 1782 ) he went back to London, then sat in his Annales politiques Brussels continued, but had, as he took the side of Brabant insurgents, leaving the Austrian Netherlands.

In 1791 he reappeared in Paris and defended before the bar of the National Convention, the black thing on San Domingo. Later, the Government took fright suspicion against him as an enemy of their rule; he was drafted, put in charge state because he had flattered the tyrants to London and Vienna, and guillotined.

Of his numerous about law, history, politics, political economy and beautiful science -spreading writings are noteworthy:

• Histoire de l' empire romain the Révolutions (Paris, 1766, 2 volumes)
• Théorie des lois civiles (Paris 1767, 3 volumes)
• Histoire impartiale of Jésuites (Paris 1768, new edition 1824)
• Mémoires sur la bastille (London 1783; Paris new edition 1864).