André Lefèvre
André Lefèvre (4 May 1718 – 25 February 1768) was an 18th-century French jurist and man of letters. A lawyer from 1739, Lefèvre wrote poetry and essays. He went to Paris and became tutor to the children of large families, especially the descendants of the house of Rochefoucauld.
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André Lefèvre
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- 1718
- Died
- 1768
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André Lefèvre (4 May 1718 – 25 February 1768) was an 18th-century French jurist and man of letters. A lawyer from 1739, Lefèvre wrote poetry and essays. He went to Paris and became tutor to the children of large families, especially the descendants of the house of Rochefoucauld.
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He contributed the articles « gouverneur », « faiblesse », « folie » and « gouvernante », to the Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert
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André Lefèvre (4 May 1718 – 25 February 1768) was an 18th-century French jurist and man of letters. A lawyer from 1739, Lefèvre wrote poetry and essays. He went to Paris and became tutor to the children of large families, especially the descendants of the house of Rochefoucauld. He contributed the articles « gouverneur », « faiblesse », « folie » and « gouvernante », to the Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert
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• 1744: Mémoires de l’Académie des sciences de Troyes en Champagne. Liège • 1748: Pot-Pourri. • 1767: Dialogue entre un curé et son filleul.
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- 1.Les référentiels des autorités SUDOC. Lefèvre, André (1717-1768)
- 2.Dictionnaire historique, critique et bibliographique: contenant les vies des hommes illustres, célèbres ou fameux des tous les pays et de tous les siècles, suivi d'un dictionnaire abrégé des mythologies et d'un tableau chronologique. Chez Ménard et Desenne, Libraires, (1822) S. 71
- 3.Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs des dix-sept volumes de « discours » de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Year (1989) Volume 7 Issue 7 S. 146–147
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