See also: Coste

Pierre Coste , printer and French translator, born with Uzès in 1668, died in Paris in 1747.

Parents Protesting S, Pierre Coste left France and took refuge in England at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, it passed his youth to England, returned then to France and died in Paris in 1747.

He translated

• the majority of the works of Locke:
• the reasonable Christianity , 1695;
• the Education of the children , 1698;
• the Test on the human understanding , 1700;
• Optics of Newton, 1722;
• the Use of the mocking remark of Shaftesbury, 1710.

It gave editions with notes of the Heather, 1720, Montaigne, 1724, the Fountain, 1730.

It gives six editions of the Tests of Montaigne between 1723 and 1745. After its death in 1747, they are reprinted eight times until in 1801. Coste endeavoured to make the text of Montaigne more exact and more accessible. It followed the edition of Langelier of 1595 not without correcting the faults of them; it joined accompanying notes and documents there, in particular of the letters of Montaigne, of which the number is increased with the wire of the editions. At the XVIIIe century and until in 1781, the Coste editions remain the only editions of the Essais . Coste became member of the Royal Society the November 25th 1742.

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