Claude-François Fraguier
Claude François Fraguier (27 August 1660, Paris – 3 May 1728, Paris) was a French churchman and writer. Fraguier became a Jesuit at a young age, but he left the order in 1694 to devote himself to literature. A classicist and author of dissertations on classical history, he was professor of theology at Caen and collaborated on the Journal des savants.
Claude-François Fraguier
- Born
- 1666. · Paris.
- Died
- 1728. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- poet, theologian, classical scholar, translator and philosopher.
- Languages
- French and Latin.
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Claude François Fraguier (27 August 1660, Paris – 3 May 1728, Paris) was a French churchman and writer. Fraguier became a Jesuit at a young age, but he left the order in 1694 to devote himself to literature. A classicist and author of dissertations on classical history, he was professor of theology at Caen and collaborated on the Journal des savants.
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He was a friend of Huet, Segrais, Mme de Lafayette and Ninon de Lenclos. He was elected to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1705 and to the Académie française in 1717. Voltaire said of him in his Siècle de Louis XIV "he was a good littérateur and full of taste. He put Plato's philosophy into good Latin verse. He would have done better to have written good French verse."
Claude-François Fraguier is recorded with the occupation classical scholar. Recorded as poet, theologian, classical scholar, translator and philosopher.
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1660
Claude-François Fraguier was born on 27 August 1666.
1728
Claude-François Fraguier died on 3 May 1728.
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- 1.Catalogue de la plupart des écrivains français qui ont paru dans le Siècle de Louis XIV, pour servir à l’histoire littéraire de ce temps, 1751
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