Octavie Guichard

See also: Belot, Guichard

Octavie Guichard , become by alliance Octavie Belot , then Octavie of Rey de Meynières , born with Paris in 1719 and died with Chaillot in 1805, is a woman of letters and French translator.

Whereas it is still young, it becomes widowed of a lawyer to the Parlement of Paris, which leaves him for any fortune a revenue of 50 books. Nourishing almost exclusively milk, it sells its revenue and learns English to carry out translations. It grants the protection of the dramatic author Charles Palissot de Montenoy and of the farmer general Alexandre the Rich person of Pouplinière, which make him obtain a pension of: 1500 pounds. It translates Samuel Johnson and David Hume while writing itself of small novels. She attends the rich person library of the president of the Parliament, Jean-Baptist-François of Rey de Meynières, which she marries in second weddings in 1765. Become widowed one second time, it dies in the old commune of Chaillot, close to Paris, at the 86 years age.

Publications

; Translations

Mixtures of English literature (1759)
Samuel Johnson: History of Rasselas, prince d' Abyssinie (1760). Republication: Desjonquères, Paris, 1994. Text in line
David Hume: History of England, since the invasion of Jules César until the advent of Henry VII (12 volumes, 1763-1765). Includes/understands the history of the house of Plantagenêt, Tudor and Stuart.
Ophélie, novel translated from English (1763)

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Réflexions of provincial varied on the speech of Jean-Jacques Rousseau concerning the origin of the inequality of condition among the men (1756)
Observations on the nobility and the Third-State (1758)

Source

Pierre Larousse, Large universal Dictionary of XIX E century , vol. II, 1867, p. 525.

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