Jean Gallois

Jean Gallois ( born June 14, 1632 Paris, † April 9, 1707 ) was a French scholar and cleric.

Gallois, who was a clergyman Abbe de Cuers, was a polymath and founded in 1665 by Denis de Sallo the Journal des Savants, which he edited until 1674 alone. He was from 1668, shortly after its inception, in the Academie des Sciences ( 1668/69, as its secretary ) and he was secretary of the Academie des Inscriptions. He was librarian of the king and from 1686 professor of mathematics and then of Greek at the College Royale. Gallois was cartridged by Colbert and also by his son Seignelay and 1672 was a member of the Académie française. After Voltaire ( Siecle de Louis XIV) he gave the busy Colbert on the carriage to Versailles lessons in Latin.

In 1672 he published his Breviarium Colbertinum ( in English translation 1912/13 in London). Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle wrote his obituary.