Charles Pinot Duclos
Charles Pinot Duclos ( born February 12, 1704 Dinan (Brittany ), † March 26, 1772 in Paris) was a French author, historian and encyclopedist. Since 1755 he worked as secretary of the Académie Française, he wrote, among other things Essays on cultural history, novels and short stories.
Life and work
As the son of a wealthy hatter of Dinan Duclos initially intended to take over the craft and business of his father. The family lost most of their assets in the evolving disastrous and John Law bubble initiated by the Mississippi speculation in the year 1720., But his widowed mother sent him to Paris for further training. He continued his training at the Académie que tenait, in the rue de Charonne continued, returning home to study jurisprudence at the Collège d' Harcourt, after completing his studies, he started working at a Parisian lawyer.
He frequented the Café Procope and joined a small group led by Alexis Piron, Claude -Henri de Fusée de Voisenon (1708-1775), Claude- Prosper de Jolyot Crébillon and Charles Collé ( 1709-1783 ). He turned out to be a writer of literature. In 1739 he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. On January 26, 1747 admission to the Académie française, the permanent secretary he was up to the year 1755. Both academies are indebted to him not only many valuable contributions, but also several useful organizational regulations and improvements. The citizens of Dinan appointed him in 1744 as mayor of their city, although he lived in Paris, and in this capacity he participated in the États de Bretagne. 1755 Duclos received his title of nobility.
Duclos was a protégé of Madame de Pompadour and Claudine Guérin de Tencin, he stayed in the many salons and literary cafés of Paris, such as the Société du Caveau.
In 1763, they recommended him to retire for a time from France, after he positioned himself in favor of his friend and compatriot Louis -René de Caradeuc de La Chalotais against Emmanuel -Armand du Plessis de Richelieu de Vignerot, duc d' Aiguillon. Began but in the same year a conflict between the Estates of Brittany and the governor of the province, just to the Duke d'Aiguillon. The Estates refused to agree to the extraordinary charges. Aiguillon on behalf of King Louis XV had been requested. La Chalotais was to some extent a personal enemy Aiguillons, and as the Parliament of Brittany stood on the side of the stands, he took a leading role in their opposition. The Parliament banned by decree the levying of taxes without the consent of the estates. The King in turn picked up these decrees, to which up to twelve all Members of Parliament resigned ( October 1764-May 1765 ). The government viewed La Chalotais as one of the authors of this affair. As part of these quarrels he was arrested his son and four other Members of Parliament. Duclos in connection with these transactions left France in 1763, first to England and then in 1766 to Italy. Nicolas Beauzée a French linguist, was appointed to succeed his friend Charles Pinot Duclos to the Académie française in 1772. After his return from thence, he recorded his impressions in the Considérations sur l' Italie ( 1791) which appeared posthumously.
Histoire de la baronne de Luz, you règne de Henri IV anecdote, 1741 récit of aventures d'une femme qui n'a jamais tort succombe toujours et. Confessions du comte de ***, 1742
Works
- Considerations sur les mœurs " (1751; German, Jena 1758),
- Confessions du comte de *** "( 1742)
- Mémoires sur les mœurs you XVIIIe siècle "( 1749).
- Histoire de Louis XI '( 1745)
- Histoire de la baronne de Luz, you anecdote règne de Henri IV (1741 )
- Les Caractères de la Folie, ballet en 3 actes, 1743
- Cashew et Zirphile, (1744)
- Mémoires pour servir à l' histoire des mœurs you XVIIIe, (1751 )
- Considérations sur l'Italie ( 1791)
- Memoires secrets sur le règne de Louis XIV, la régence et le règne de Louis XV (1791 )
- Remarques sur la Grammaire de Port -Royal
- Oeuvres completes (1806 ) ( posthumously )