Louis-Maïeul Chaudon

See also: Chaudon

Louis-Maïeul Chaudon is a French biographer born in Provence in 1737, died in 1817.

It entered to the Bénédictins of the Abbaye of Cluny. He is known by:

avenged great men, or Examination of the judgments related by Mr. of V. and some other philosophers to several famous men, with a great number of critical remarks… per Mister of Fine sands (L. - M. Chaudon and others), Lyon, J. Mr. Barret, 1769 to read on line)
a New historical Dictionary , which it published in 1766, Avignon, 4 volumes in-8, and which was followed of 7 other quickly exhausted editions. He was carried to 13 volumes in one 8th edition, published with Lyon in 1804, with Antoine-François Delandine, and to 21 in a recasting due to Louis Marie Prudhomme, 1810 - 1812. An edition in 30 volumes, historical, critical and bibliographical Dictionary, containing the lives of the famous men… followed by a shortened dictionary of mythologies and a chronological table of the most remarkable événemens which took place since the beginning of the world… , under the direction of J.D. Goignoux, and re-examined by L.M. Chaudon and A.F. Delandine, is appeared on the presses of Ménard and Desenne, in 1821-1823 (to read on line).

It is also the Dictionary of Chaudon which was used as a basis for the dictionary To crack: historical Dictionary or History shortened of the men who had a name by the genius, the talens, the virtues, errors, since the beginning of the world until our days, by the abbot F.X. To crack. New edition re-examined… on 3rd… T.I VIII. - Supplement with the historical Dictionary of the abbot F.X. To crack forming the continuation of the new edition… J. Bocous and the abbots J.B. Ecuy and Ganilh. Volume IX XII… (to read on line).

Memories to be used with the history as Mr. de Voltaire: in which one will find various writings of him little known on his disagreements with J. - B. Rousseau… Text of the baron de Servières, re-examined by Louis Mayeul Chaudon, according to Barber. Reprod. Amsterdam, 1785. 2 vol. (in line, vol. I and vol. II).
One still has of Chaudon a Dictionnaire antiphilosophic , published in 1767, where it fights the attacks of Voltaire against the religion, while returning justice with the extraordinary talents of this writer.

His/her brother is the abbot Esprit Joseph Chaudon.

He gave the materials to him which he had gathered for the Bibliothèque of a man of taste, or Opinion on the choice of the best books written in our language on all the kinds of sciences and literature , by L. Mr. D.V. (abbot L. - M. Chaudon), Avignon, impr. J. Blery, 1772 (to read on line).

The complete bibliography of Louis Maïeul Chaudon is in ((the old and modern universal Biography of Michaud (1843).

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