Jean-Louis Bergeret

Jean -Louis Bergeret ( born December 11, 1641 Paris, † October 9, 1694 ) was a French jurist.

Bergeret both studied law at the University in his hometown. Upon successful completion, he joined the civil service and worked from 1672 as a lawyer in the Parliament of Metz. As such, he was a partisan of Charles Colbert, marquis de Croissy, the foreign minister of King Louis XIV.

When the French Academy was looking for a successor to the late philosopher Geraud de Cordemoy, they had to decide between Bergeret and the philologist Gilles Ménage. As for Bergeret almost uttered the whole family Colbert, this was 1684 then also selected ( Feuteuil 8). The cleric Charles Irenee Castel de Saint- Pierre Bergeret was followed in 1695 by on this place.