Joseph of the Door

See also: Laporte

Joseph of the Door , born the January 21st 1714 with Belfort and dead the December 19th 1779, is a Religieux, Critique arts person, Poète and Dramaturge French.

Belonging to the order of the Jesuit S, the abbot of the Door had initially worked with some periodic works, in company with Fréron and, inter alia, with the literary Year . Temporarily scrambled with Fréron, the abbot of the Door started, in 1758, to publish the literary Observer . The first sheet of this periodic writing for the year 1761, about which Voltaire, enemy relentless of Fréron, spoke like “masterpiece in its kind”, contained an article on the literary Year , newspaper where the abbot of the Door saw “a intention made of censured, to degrade, of décrier masterpieces, and our most famous writers placed below the most obscure literary men.

Prolific author, the abbot of the Door also wrote a very great number of works and compilations. Its first writing was the Voyage to the stay of the shades , work of criticism which had some success. It made then a periodic publication entitled Observations on the modern literature where it endeavoured to contradict Fréron.

Works

curious Chinese Almanac, or Glance on the religion, sciences, arts, the trade, manners and the uses of the Empire of China , Beijing; and Paris, Duchesne, (S.D.)
Almanac of the Parnassus , Paris, Flahaut and Vve Pissot, 1727-1728
dramatic Anecdotes , Paris, Widowed Duchesne, 1775; réimp. Geneva, Slatkine, 1971
Description of the tables of the works of sculpture exposed to the living room of Louvre, with remarks by a company of amateurs , Paris, Mercure de France , 1763
dramatic Dictionary, containing the history of the theaters, the rules of the dramatic kind, the observations of the most famous Masters and the new reflections on the spectacles , Paris, Lacombe, 1776
Of Mahométisme, or the Life, the religion and the policy of Mahomet and its sectateurs , L. N. D.
School of literature, drawn from our best writers , Paris, Babuty wire, 1767
Spirit of Bourdaloue, drawn from its sermons and its thoughts , Paris, C. - J.B. Bauche, 1762
Spirit, maxims and principles of Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Neuchâtel, Booksellers associated, 1764
literary History of the women françoises, or Letters historical and critical containing a precis of the life and a rationale of the works of the women who were distinguished in the literature Francoise , with the abbot J. - france of the Cross, of Compiegne, Paris, Lacombe, 1769
the Antique dealer, comedy in 3 acts (1751) , Paris, A. Aubry, 1870
literary France, containing the names and the works of the men of letters, the sçavans and artists famous François… for the year 1758 , Paris, Duchesne, 1758
the Review of the sheets of Mr. Fréron… letters with Mrs. of *** , 1st part. Analyzes few good philosophical works, preceded by reflections on criticism. 2nd part of the “Review of the sheets of Mr. Fréron” , London, 1756

the Wallet of a man of taste, or the Spirit of our best poëtes , Amsterdam; Paris, Vincent, 1765

the Spirit of the Encyclopedia or Choice of the most curious articles, most pleasant, more the prickles, most philosophical of this large dictionary , Geneva, Briasson, 1769

the Spirit of the philosophical monarchs: Marc-Aurèle, Julien, Stanislas and Frederic , Amsterdam, Vincent, 1764

Observations on the Spirit of the loix, or the art of reading this book, hearing it and to judge of it , Amsterdam, Pierre Mortar, 1751

Observations on the modern literature , Paris, Duchesne, 1752

new Collection of poësies , London Paris? , 1751

Resource against the trouble, or Art to shine in the conversations , $the Hague; Paris, Vve Duchesne, 1766

Continuation of the voyage to the stay of the shades. With Mrs D *** , $the Hague, 1749

Table of the Ottoman Empire , Paris, Duchesne, 1757

Voyage to the stay of the ombrees , Paris, 1749

Sources

Gustave Vapereau, universal Dictionary of the literatures , Paris, Hatchet, 1876, p. 1190

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