Guillaume Massieu
Illustration — Guillaume Massieu Guillaume Massieu (13 April 1665, Caen – 26 September 1722, Paris) was a French churchman, translator and poet, best known for his Latin verses in praise of the agreeability and benefits of coffee.
Guillaume Massieu
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- 1665 · Caen.
- Died
- 1722 · Paris.
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- France
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- religious role · philologist · professor · literary critic · classical scholar · poet · romanist · translator
- Languages
- Latin · French
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Illustration — Guillaume Massieu Guillaume Massieu (13 April 1665, Caen – 26 September 1722, Paris) was a French churchman, translator and poet, best known for his Latin verses in praise of the agreeability and benefits of coffee.
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Guillaume Massieu is recorded with the occupation classical scholar. Recorded with the occupation literary critic. Recorded with the occupation religious role. Recorded as religious role, philologist, professor, literary critic and classical scholar.
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Guillaume Massieu was born on 13 April 1665.
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Guillaume Massieu died on 26 September 1722.
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- 1.Éléments biographiques d'après Tyrtée Tastet, Histoire des quarante fauteuils de l'Académie française depuis la fondation jusqu'à nos jours, 1635-1855, volume II, 1855, .
- 2.Académie royale des inscriptions, Mémoires de littérature, tomes III et IV, 1746
- 3.Le poème a été recueilli dans Pœtarum ex Academia Gallica, qui latine aut græce scripserunt Carmina, anthologie de poètes néo-latins et néo-grecs de l’Académie Française (1738) et dans Étrennes à tous les amateurs de café, pour tous les temps, ou Manuel de l'amateur de café (1790).
- 4.Thomas-Bernard Fellon, Faba Arabica, 1696.
- 5.« Arte coqui debet blandus liquor, arte bibendus »
- 6.« Queis cura est divino pascere mentis / Eloquio, dictisque animos terrere nocentum »
- 7.« Haud illorum pectora segnis / Torpor affectat »
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