See also: Naigeon

Jacques-Andre Naigeon was a literary man and French philosopher born the July 15th 1738 with Paris, dead the February 28th 1810 in Paris.

He is elected member of the French Academy in 1795. Disciple and friend of Holbach and Denis Diderot.

It left, according to the dictionary Bouillet Chassang, the reputation of a fanatic and intolerant atheist, and of a sharp, diffuse and heavy writer.

Works

• the soldier philosophizes (1768);
• Dictionary of old and modern philosophy (1791);
• Memory on the life and works of Diderot (1832).

II moreover a collection of the old Moralists gave and published several opuscules of D' Holbach.

One owes with Jean Philibert Damiron a Mémoire on Naigeon in 1857.

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