Jean Devaines
Jean Devaines (v. 1735 with Paris - March 15th 1803) is a French publicity agent, civil servant of the State.
He is relative of Eusèbe de Salverte and friend of Julie de Lespinasse. He is first clerk of finances under Turgot, then administrator of the fields and receiver of finances. He is then member of the Committee of the general treasury of 1791 with 1793 and to advise State in 1800. He is elected member of the French Academy in 1803 and dies two months afterwards.
Publicity agent, it holds in Paris a living room where go the majority of the literary men of its time. “the Toothing-stone and Suard, its close friends, collected the majority of its opuscules, one in the Corrrespondance , the other in its Mélanges of literature . In fact small fragments, but detect readily the writer and the thinker: Of Buffon and Rousseau; New considerations on manners; Mediocrity; Of Théophilanthropes . ”
Suard said of him: “He wrote little, and what he wrote is hardly known but literary men scholars; but those which read the small escaped works with its feather can only be struck fine and clever ideas, of this pure taste and this delicate tact of suitabilities, of this flower of literature, this concise without dryness and animated style without effort, which distinguish the productions from this pleasant and easy spirit. ”
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