Antoine Furetière

Antoine Furetière , born the December 28th 1619 with Paris where he died the May 14th 1688, is a man of the church, Poète, fabulist, novelist and lexicographer French.

Biography

Born in a family from the Parisian lower middle class, Antoine Furetière first of all intends for a career in the right all while being interested highly in the ancient history and the Eastern languages.

He is received at the bar of Paris in 1645 and buys a load of tax prosecutor near the Abbaye of Saint-Germain-of-Meadows, which quickly leads it to want to enter the orders. In 1662, it is named abbot of Chalivoy, in the diocese of Bourges (current commune of Chalivoy-Milon) and prior of Chuisnes where the current elementary school bears its name.

In parallel, it is interested in the literature and publishes novels, fables and poetries, which is worth to him the attention of the French Academy, of which it is elected member in 1662.

The Dictionary

Singularly aggravated by the slowness of the progress of the work of the Dictionary of the Academy , like by the absence of taking into account of the scientific, technical and artistic terms, he requests and obtains Louis XIV a privilege to publish his clean Dictionnaire , of which he had begun the drafting as of the beginning of the Années 1650. The company not being taste of all his colleagues academicians and the charges becoming more and more sournesses, Furetière brings a lawsuit which it had probably lost if its death had not come to put a term at the quarrel.

Having published in 1684 an extract of sound Dictionary , it is excluded from the Academy the January 22nd 1685 with a voice of majority. However, the king, guard of the Academy, intervene to be opposed to the election of a substitute of living of Furetière. Bound friendship since long years with Jean of the Fountain, it is scrambled definitively with him when the fabulist refused to take party in his favor in the quarrel. Upset by the fate which is made to him, Furetière launches out then in the publication of violent one lampoons against the Academy and the academicians, whose most famous Couches of the Academy in 1687 is .

Works

  • Énéide disguised (1648 - 1653)
  • various Poetries (1655)
  • New allegorical or History of the last disorders arrived at the kingdom of Eloquence (1659)
  • the Mercury Voyage (1659)
  • the middle-class Novel (1666)
  • Collaboration with the drafting of the Litigants of Root (1668)
  • Essay of a universal dictionary (1684)
  • Layers of the Academy , satirical factum (Amsterdam, 1687)
  • universal Dictionnaire generally containing all the Francois, words as well old as modern, and the terms of all sciences and arts (1690, posthumous, with a foreword of Pierre Bayle)

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