Laurent Angliviel of Beaumelle

Laurent Angliviel of Beaumelle , born the January 28th 1727 with Valleraugue and dead the November 17th 1773, is a Man of letters French.

Of a family Protesting E, Beaumelle was high in the religion Catholique with the college of charity of Alès. Having left France in 1745, it went initially to Geneva, where it returned in the reformed church, then went, in 1749, with Copenhagen, where he became professor of the humanities Frenchwomen. In 1751, it resided at Berlin where it was scrambled with Voltaire. It is him which it first attacked thus, in its book of the Pensées , the philosopher friendly and protected from Frederic II: “ That one traverses the old story and modern, one will not find an example of prince who gave seven thousand ecus of pension to a man of letters, as man of letters. There were larger poets than Voltaire. It there of of rewarded so well forever, because the taste never put terminals at its rewards. The king of Prussia fills benefits the men with talent, precisely by the same reasons which urge small prince d' Allemagne to fill benefits a Bouffon or a dwarf. ”

Not finding in Berlin success that it had hoped there, Beaumelle returned to Paris in 1752 and published its Notes over the century of Louis XIV (Frankfurt, 1753, 3 vol. in-12, with the text of Voltaire). Following this publication, it was put at the Bastille April 24th with the October 13rd 1753. This imprisonment, to which one said that Voltaire was not foreign, was motivated on the violence of some of these notes. Following the impression of the Letters of Mrs. de Maintenon , that one showed it to have concealed with Saint-Cyr military school, Beaumelle was again locked up with the Bastille of the August 6th 1756 at September 1st 1757.

The stay of Paris being then prohibited him, it went to Toulouse where it knew also nuisances. Being fixed, after being themselves married, not far from Toulouse, the hatred of Voltaire came to seek there: shown by this one to have written ninety-five anonymous letters to him and defamatory, he however managed to persuade the minister of the police force of his innocence. He even obtained, in 1770, a place with the library of the king and a pension.

One must with Beaumelle: My Thoughts or, that will one say some? (Copenhagen, 1751, in-12); Answer to the Supplement at the century of Louis XIV or Letters with Voltaire (1751, 1712; 1763, in-12); Memories to be used with the history as Mrs. de Maintenon (Amsterdam, 1755 - 56, 9 vol. in-12), work which had its success with the letters that it contains; Preventive against the deism (1763, in-12); Comments on Henriade (Paris, 1769, in-8°; 1775, 2 vol. in-8°), where the critic proposes bad worms with the author like front being substituted for those of the poet; the Spirit (Paris, 1802, in-12).

Beaumelle was the principal writer of the Danish Spectator or modern Aspasie , collection weekly (Copenhagen, 1749 - 1750, 3 vol. in-8°). It also translated of Latin into French. He wrote under the pen names of “Krinelbol”, “Bekrinoll” and “Gonia Pala Jos”.

His/her son, Angliviel Victor-Laurent-Suzanne-Brace of Beaumelle, born in 1772 and died in 1831, published various writings on the Spain and the Brésil and gave some translations of parts of the Spanish theater, printed in the Chefs-d'oeuvre of the foreign theaters (1822).

References

Michel Nicolas, Note on the life and writings of Laurent Angliviel of Beaumelle , Paris, 1852, in-8°
Charles Nisard, Enemies of Voltaire , Paris, 1853, in-8°

Source

Gustave Vapereau, universal Dictionary of the literatures , Paris, Hatchet, 1876, p. 1455-6

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