Louis Jouard of Nauze
Louis Jouard of Nauze , born with Villeneuve-sur-Lot the March 27th 1696 and died in Paris the May 2nd 1773, is a Jesuit French, historian of the Antiquité.
He is the author of memories and of essays published by the royal Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities and bearing on subjects such as the songs of the ancient Greece, the antiquity and the origin of the Kabbale, the history of the Egyptian calendar, the weight of old the delivers Roman. Its work is quoted by Louis de Jaucourt in the Encyclopédie (articles Peinture of the Romans and Zodiaque ), by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in her Dictionnaire of the music (article Chanson ), by Edward Gibbon in its Histoire of the decline and the fall of the Roman Empire , by Georges Cuvier in his Discours on the revolutions of the surface of the sphere .
It also translated from Latin the Histoire of the church of Sarlat , according to the Gallia christiana of Denis of Holy-Marthe, and the Director of the religious hearts of Louis of Blois.
Louis Jouard of Nauze was elected member of the Royal Society in 1732 and member of the royal Academy of the inscriptions and the humanities in 1754.
References
- Academy of the inscriptions and the humanities, History of the royal Academy of the inscriptions and the humanities with the memories of literature drawn from the registers of this academy , 1710-1808.
- Friedrich August Eckstein, Nomenclator Philogorum , 1871.
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