Claude Yvon

Claude Yvon also Abbé Yvon ( born April 15, 1714 Mamers, † November 1791 in Paris) was a French theologian and encyclopedist.

Life and work

He was the son of a merchant from Mamers.Bevor he went to Paris, he took minor ecclesiastical ordinations to the Abbé. In Paris, he earned his living more or less as a teacher or tutor better at the Sorbonne where he prepared the students for their exams. He also wrote several works anonymously. His first texts he published under his own name were the articles in the encyclopedia so the soul, âme, atheism, athéisme, god dieu and some more lemmas.

But this seemingly innocuous article about the soul attracted the attention of the official inspectors for publications, the Advocate General, Joseph Omer Joly de Fleury (1715-1810) avocat général au Grand Conseil ( 1737-1746 ). Joly de Fleury wrote a fierce indictment of this article, which was an expression of pure atheism, in his view. From 1751 Yvon shared an apartment with the two Abbés Pestre Jean and Jean -Martin de Prades, which included all three of the contributors published in the June 1751 first volume of the Encyclopédie. Under threat of a lettre de cachet, he fled in 1752 in the Republic of the Seven United Provinces or Netherlands.

There he found a job as a proofreader in the publishing house of Marc- Michel Rey as a proofreader. In the records of the Amsterdam Masonic Lodge Concordia Vincit Animos Amsterdam, he was led into the list.

From the Dutch Republic, he moved his residence for a short time in Berlin.

He then moved to Pierre Rousseau (1716-1785) to Liege. Here Yvon assisted him in the preparation of the Journal encyclopédique.

In 1754 his work Yvon La Liberté de conscience resserrée dans les bornes legitimate was published in London in three volumes. In this work he put forward the theory that all religions are naturally intolerant and they attack forced his enemies, but that civil society should be tolerant of those who did not agree with the religious leaders. Yvon returned at the beginning of the year 1762 back to France.

At the beginning of 1767 Yvon editor of the Journal de l'Agriculture. In 1778 the first two volumes of Yvon of the Church's history appeared, both volumes were moved to Amsterdam, the title was Discours sur l' histoire et généraux raisonnés de l' Église. Ten more volumes were to follow, but were not relocated. Because even the first two volumes drew the attention of police and censorship on themselves, so it was, consequently, to a ban on the publication of the third volume. This approach found an echo in the press, and Yvon offered to possibly make corrections, the required censorship, but without success.

Yvon died in Paris in November 1791. Until his death, he was librarian of the Marc -René de Voyer d' Argenson ( 1722-1782 ) on the Château des Ormes.

Works

• Liberté de conscience dans resserrée of innate legitimate, London, 1754-55, 3 parts, in-8 °.
• Two Lettres à Rousseau, pour servir de réponse à sa lettre contre le mandement de l' Archevêque de Paris; Amsterdam, 1763, in-8 °.
• Discours sur l' histoire rationnés généraux et de l' Église, Amsterdam (Paris), 1768, 3 vol. in 12th
• Accord de la philosophie avec la religion, prouvé par une suite de discours relatifs à treize époques, Paris, 1776, in -12, et 1782 ou 1785, 2 vol. in-8 °.