Thomas-Jean Pichon

Thomas-Jean Pichon , born with the Mans in 1731 and died in 1812, is a man of the church and French man of letters, Doctor of Divinity and canon of the Ste Chapelle of Mans.

In its Physical of the history , he studies the relationship of the climates with passions, manners, the aptitudes of the people. Which is the cause of the diversity of the color of the skin of the men? love relative with the climate? The final chapter is devoted to the general influence of the laws on the temperament and the inclinations of the men in all the climates. One finds a chapter on the color of the skin of the men and a refutation of the assumption of Maupertuis in his physical Venus .

Its Mémoire on the abuses the Célibat is a demographic text in which it supports the political duty of the Procréation, because the population is necessary to the State. He proposes to create a tax, which he calls men “tribute of tolérence”, on the single people, as well as women, divided into six classes according to their fortune.

Publications

the Reason triumphing over the innovations, or Test over manners and incredulity (1756)
Treated historical and critical of the nature of God v (1758)
Trust with the philosophers, has four legs, or the immaterialism opposed to the materialism (1763)
the Physics of the history, or Considerations general on the elementary principles of the temperament and the natural character of the people (1765)
Mémoire on the abuses the celibacy in the political order and on the possible way repress them (1765)
the respective Rights of the State and church recalled to their principles (1766)
Of the theological studies, or Research on the abuses which are opposed to progress theology in the public schools, & over the possible ways reform them in France (1767)
Sacre and crowning of Louis XVI, king de France and of Navarre with Rheims, on June 11th, 1775 (1775)
Arguments of the reason in favor of philosophy, the religion and priesthood, or Examination of the Man of Mr. Helvétius (1776)
fraternal Avis with the catholic priests of the department of the Sarthe, on the advantages and disadvantages of the celebration of the religious worship in public temples or particular houses, and on the means easy to promptly restore in their church the general peace of the consciences and the exact conformity of the orthodoxe feelings (1799)

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