Nicolas Lenglet Of Fresnoy

Nicolas Lenglet Of Fresnoy , born the October 5th 1674 with Beauvais and dead the January 16th 1755, is a scholar French.

Lenglet Of Fresnoy studied initially theology, but left it soon for the diplomacy and the policy. Torcy named it, in 1705, secretary for the languages Latin and French near the voter of Cologne, which resided at Lille. Under the Regency, it returned to Paris and the regent made profitable his skill, in 1718, to discover the accomplices of the Conspiration of Cellamare. He was several times for his writings.

Lenglet dealt then only with its work of scholarship and refused all which was quoted to him in France or abroad. Its love of independence and its opposition to the royal critics did it, under Louis XV, to lock up five times at the Bastille, once at the citadel of Strasbourg, another time at Vincennes. Corrosive and sarcastic, it had many enemies, that from which it drew vanity, saying: “I want to be frankly Gaulois in my style, as in my actions. ” He died, with nearly 82 years, after being fallen in the hearth auprès of which he read.

Of a great scholarship, Lenglet, whose books contain treasures of scholarship, was interested as well in literary criticism as with hermetic philosophy, the history or the geography. It also published the Romance of the Rose , Marot, Sigogne, Régnier, Motin, Berthelot, Maynard, Henriade of Voltaire, the Mémoires of Philippe de Comines, Pierre of Estoile, etc

He wrote under the pseudonyms of Edward Melton , Albert Van Heussen , C. Gordon de Percel and Gosford . He also wrote in Latin under the name of Lengletius .

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