César Chesneau Dumarsais
He was a prominent figure in what became known as the Enlightenment, and contributed to Diderot's Encyclopédie. After his death, Jacques-Philippe-Augustin Douchet and Nicolas Beauzée, who were both teachers at the École royale militaire, took over his work. César Chesneau Dumarsais was born in Marseille, Dumarsais trained in Paris as a lawyer, before abandoning the bar to pursue the life of the mind, subsisting on occasional law students and later on the meager revenue from a pension in the city's Faubourg-Saint Victor.
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César Chesneau Dumarsais
- Born
- 17 July 1676
- Birthplace
- Marseille, Provence, France
- Died
- 11 June 1756
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Occupation
- * Philosopher
- Nationality
- France.
- Languages
- French.
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He was a prominent figure in what became known as the Enlightenment, and contributed to Diderot's Encyclopédie. After his death, Jacques-Philippe-Augustin Douchet and Nicolas Beauzée, who were both teachers at the École royale militaire, took over his work. César Chesneau Dumarsais was born in Marseille, Dumarsais trained in Paris as a lawyer, before abandoning the bar to pursue the life of the mind, subsisting on occasional law students and later on the meager revenue from a pension in the city's Faubourg-Saint Victor.
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He wrote clandestine tracts in favour of freethought, attacked the French church in books and pamphlets, and proposed, to no avail, a reform of French orthography. Principal works include Méthode raisonné pour apprendre la langue latine (1722) and Principes de grammaire (1769). Traité des Tropes (1730) was an influential early attempt to generate a philosophical theory of figurative language. A seven-volume French edition of his complete known works was published in 1797.
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• Born — 17 July 1676 • Birthplace — Marseille, Provence, France • Died — 11 June 1756 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — * Philosopher • Grammarian
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