The abbot François Arnaud was a literary man and ecclesiastical French, born with Aubignan the July 27th 1721 and died in Paris the December 2nd 1784.

Biography

In 1754, the Arnaud abbot started to publish in collaboration with Jean-Baptist-Antoine Suard, the Abbé Prévost and the lawyer Pierre-Jean-Baptist Gerbier, the foreign Journal , collection containing of the extracts and criticisms of works. It continued it with Suard under the same title until in 1764. The duke of Choiseul entrusted to him in 1762 the Gazette of France but it lost its privilege in 1771.

Its articles were joined together in collection under the title literary Variétés . It composed of many tests on the music of Old, the style of Plato, etc In his Lettres with the count de Caylus on the music , it took vigorously the party of Gluck and was called “ the large pontiff of the gluckists ”.

Librarian of Mister, the Arnaud abbot entered to the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities in 1762 then to the French Academy in 1771.

Works

• Lettre on the music with Mr. the count de Caylus , 1754
• literary Variétés, or collection of parts as well original as translated, concerning philosophy, literature and arts , with Jean-Baptist-Antoine Suard, 1768 - 1769, 4 vol.
• the evening lost with the Opera , 1776

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