Antoine Sabatier de Castres

Antoine Sabatier says the abbot Sabatier de Castres is a man of letters and French journalist born with Castres the April 13rd 1742 and died in Paris the June 15th 1817.

Biography

He flees of the seminar of his birthplace after having been only tonsure but kept the title of Abbé. He spent a few years to Toulouse then came to Paris in 1766. Protected by Helvétius, it joined initially the party of the Philosophers, then that of the defenders of the religion. It took foot at the Court and was pensioned four times. He emigrated after the storming of the Bastille. Under the Restoration, it accepted Government an annual help of 2.000 francs. He died in the sisters of Charity.

Works

  • Fifteen minutes of a merry recluse , poetries, 1766

  • Betsi or bizarreries of the destiny , novel, 1769
  • Three centuries of the French literature, or Table of the spirit of our writers since François Ier until in 1772 , 1772, 1774, 3 vol., and 1779, 1781, 1801, 4 vol.
  • pagan Centuries, or Dictionary mythological, heroic, political, literary and geographical of Antiquity , 1784, 9 vol.
  • the True spirit of J. - J. Rousseau , 1804, 3 vol.: collection of passages of Jean-Jacques Rousseau favorable to the religion and monarchy.

Sabatier also published the Dictionnaire of passions, the virtues and the defects of Antonio Sticotti (1769). He renovated the translation of the Contes of Boccace by Antoine the Mason (1779).

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