Aubert abbot

See also: Aubert

Jean-Louis Aubert , known as the abbot Aubert , born with Paris the February 15th 1731 and dead the November 10th 1814, is a fabulist, poet, journalist and critical French.

Wire of the violonist and type-setter Jacques Aubert (1686 - 1753), he wrote against the musical principles of Rousseau. His/her father, member in 1721 of the royal Academy of music, was attached to Mrs. de Prie and the duke of Bourbon-Cop.

Raise with the Collège of Navarre, it enters the orders thereafter. In 1741, it joined the leading team of the Various Affiches Advertisements and Opinions , where it writes the critical and literary part. In 1752, it is on the initiative the review Affiches and Annonces of Province . The weather wrote, since 1752 until in 1772, the critical and literary part, and was a long time during the fortune of this newspaper; he worked then with the Journal of the Art schools .

Aubert publishes a collection of Fables in the Mercure de France , and in 1756 of new Fables which had a great success. Grimm affirms that these fables “are just good for the children, and are not authorized with being too difficult”; Voltaire on the contrary recommends them. In 1761 - 1763, it writes the moral Contes on the tables of Greuze , and in 1765, the Mort of Abel and the Vœu of Jephté .

As protected from Vergennes, it joined, to replace the abbot Mercier, the Journal of Trévoux which will be famous the Journal of Sciences .

In 1773, one created for him, with the Collège de France, a pulpit of French literature, which it occupied until in 1784. In November of the same year, it is named royal Censeur. He intends to also fight “the abuse the philosophical spirit” gains he the confidence of the count de Vergennes. In direct contact with the Foreign affairs, it is in charge of the police force of the foreign newspapers. In 1774, it is named director of the Gazette of France to replace Marin. It is exécré by many and journalist man of letteen of his time following the example Brissot, which designates it as man of straw or servant of Vergennes, “flat servant of the French government”.

Works

The Aubert abbot published in 1774, in 2 volumes in-8, an edition of his Fables , extremely increased, and accompanied by various Œuvres ; one notices moral Contes there in worms.

Aubert wrote also tests of Critiques on Voltaire and published:

a Ode with the poets of time on the ridiculous praises of which they tire Louis XVI (Paris, 1774);
Parallel of the importance of the religious opinions of Necker and the religion considered of Mrs. de Genlis (Paris, 1788);
My Sample (poem, Paris, Year VIII);
Treated universal history (Amsterdam, 1760 - 1762).

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