Jean-Marie-Bernard Clément

Biography

He taught some time philosophy with the college of his birthplace, then came to Paris where he was protected by Mably and was recommended by Voltaire to the Toothing-stone. As of 1771, it gave a first example of the systematic spirit of criticism which was to mark its production while being the only one of its contemporaries to disapprove the translation of the Géorgiques of the abbot Delille.

It gave without success a tragedy in three acts, Médée (1779). Collaborator of the Newspaper of Mister , the French Newspaper and other periodic collections, it directed towards criticism, systematically exciting the old ones and the traditional ones of the 17th century and attacking more and more violently the alive authors.

Jean-François of Saint-Lambert made deliver against him a Lettre de cachet which sent it two days to the Fort-l' Évêque. He came out from it even more excited than, and haloed before of a half-celebrity in the world of the letters. He started to attack Voltaire with a great virulence, carrying out a war to him which lasted nearly ten years. Voltaire called it “ inclément the ”. After the French revolution, it continued in this kind, concentrating its features on Pounce-Denis Écouchard-Lebrun.

In addition to his works of criticism, Clément gave Satires , a verse translation of the delivered Jerusalem of the Tasse (1801) and the volumes V with VII translation of works of Cicéron published by Pierre-Antoine Guéroult and Desmeuniers (1783 - 1789); it re-examined the translation made by Antoine Galland of the Arab tales of the Eleven days (1796), translated the Amours of Leucippe and Clitophon of Achille Tatius (1800) and collaborated in the dramatic Anecdotes of the abbot of the Door.

Works

critical Observations on the new verse translation François of Géorgiques de Virgile, and on the poems of the Seasons, the Declamation and Painting , 1771;
New critical observations on various subjects of literature , 1772;
Letters with Mr. de Voltaire (9 letters in all), 1773 - 1776;
the Freemasons , comedy, 1774;
Médée , tragedy in 3 acts, 1779;
Of the Tragedy, to serve as following the letters in Voltaire , 1784;
Tests of criticism on the old and modern literature , 1785;
Satires , 1786;
Draft Regulation on the manner of holding, in the future, the so-called philosophers , 1786;
Small dictionary of the court and the city, 1788;
annual Table of the French literature , 5 parts, 1801.

External bonds

Médée , on the numeric library Gallica
Letters of the Sr Clement of Dijon with Mr. de Voltaire , 1759 - 1768

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