Nicolas Antoine Boulanger

See also: Baker (homonymy)

Nicolas Antoine Boulanger , born with Paris in 1722, died in 1759, is a writer French.

Wire of a paper merchant, Boulanger applied initially to the Mathématiques and became engineer of the Ponts and Chaussées; then he studied the old and Eastern languages and composed several philosophical writings in which he sought to explain by astronomical symbols, but especially by terror that the flood inspired to the men, the superstitions and the religious practices established on all the ground. The edition of its work was posthumous.

The principal ones are:

  • Research on the origin of the Eastern despotism , 1761;
  • the Antiquity revealed by its uses, work published and remelted by D' Holbach, 1766.

One allotted to him:

Its Œuvres was joined together in 1792, 8 volumes, in-8 and 10 volumes in-12.

To note, a monumental work of this writer too little known: Anecdotes of Nature , ever published (there would be only 3 to 5 specimens), on geology. It is a book of more than 600 pages than having more influenced Buffon during its draftings of the Times of Nature . Diderot and Desmarets also had a specimen of it.

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