Augustin Simon Irailh

Augustin Simon Irailh , born with the Puy-en-Velay the June 16th 1717 and died in Saint-Vincent-of-Hung in 1794, is a man of the church and historian French.

He is canon of Monistrol in Haute-Loire, then cleaned Saint Vincent in the Lot. He makes known himself for his literary Querelles , published in 1761, and he is also the author of a Histoire of the meeting of the Brittany in France , published in 1764.

The literary Querelles contain especially anecdotes, sometimes tasty and often apocryphal books, in connection with the arguments in any kind which agitate the world of the well-read men. Irailh distinguishes three kinds from them: quarrels between authors, quarrels on the great subjects and quarrels between institutions or an institution and an author. It is in this third category that one finds the very first mention of the famous anecdote of the lawsuit of Galileo where he declares in connection with the Earth: “ Eppur if muove” (“And yet it turns”).

Gustave Vapereau note which it is a “work interesting and indeed written that one allotted to Raynal, then with Voltaire. ” Less enthusiastic, the baron Grimm written: “That is read with enough pleasure, writes if one can about it take with what degrades the letters and the human spirit in a humiliating way. It is to consider the human nature on the unpleasant side, unfortunately as true and perhaps more common as the beautiful one. ”

Publications

literary Quarrels, or Memories to be used for the history of the revolutions of the Republic of the Letters, since Homère until our days , 4 volumes in 2 volumes, 1761. Republication: Slatkine Reprints, Geneva, 1967. Text in line 1 2 3 4. Extract on line: “Encyclopédistes and the Antiones”.
History of the meeting of Brittany in France, where one finds anecdotes on the Anne princess, girl of François II , 2 volumes, 1764. Republication: Morvran, Huelgoat, 1976.

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