François-Jean de Chastellux

François -Jean de Chastellux ( born May 5, 1734 Paris, † October 24, 1788 ) was a French military and writer.

De Chastellux fought during the American Revolutionary War under the command of Comte de Rochambeau. He also met George Washington personally know about this and later Thomas Jefferson.

As de Chastellux was back in France, he settled in Paris and dedicated himself from that time only his literary work. 1775 elected to the Académie française de Chastellux the successor of the late playwright Jean -Baptiste Vivien de Châteaubrun ( armchair 2); himself followed Aimar -Charles -Marie de Nicolaï according to this place.

The painter Charles Willson Peale created a remarkable portrait by François -Jean de Chastellux.

Works (selection)

• De la félicité publique ou Considérations sur le sort des hommes dans les differentes époques de l' histoire. Sorbonne, Paris 1989 ( Paris Nachdr d ed 1768)
• Éloge de M. Helvetius. Paris 1774th
• Essai sur l' union de la poésie et de la musique. Slatkine, Geneva, 1970 ( Nachdr d ed Paris 1765 ).
• Iphigénie en Aulis. Opéra. Paris in 1773.
• Voyage de M. le marquis de dans l' Amerique Chastellux septentrionale, dans les années 1780 et 1781, 1782. Tallandier, Paris 1980 ( Paris Nachdr d ed 1786).