Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard (15 January 1732 in Besançon – 20 July 1817 in Paris) was a French writer, translator and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment. Suard was incarcerated in the Fort Royal on Île Sainte-Marguerite between 1751 and 1753. On 16 January 1766, he married Amélie Panckoucke, sister of Charles-Joseph Panckoucke.
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Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard
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- 15 January 1732
- Birthplace
- Besançon, France
- Died
- 20 July 1817
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Occupation
- Journalist Translator Literary critic
- Spouse
- Amélie Panckoucke
- Nationality
- France
- Honours
- Knight of the Order of Saint Michael · Officer of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard (15 January 1732 in Besançon – 20 July 1817 in Paris) was a French writer, translator and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment. Suard was incarcerated in the Fort Royal on Île Sainte-Marguerite between 1751 and 1753. On 16 January 1766, he married Amélie Panckoucke, sister of Charles-Joseph Panckoucke.
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He edited Le journal étranger from 1760 to 1762 and La gazette littéraire d'Europe from 1764 to 1766. Suard was on intimate terms with the philosophes and regularly attended the salon of Baron d'Holbach, although he seems to have eschewed their more radical ideas. He was closely acquainted with the Marquis de Condorcet, having stayed in residence with him back in 1772. In 1774, he was made a member of the French Academy, and later a state censor. For all his caution, he was later harassed by the Revolutionary and Napoleonic regimes. His Mélanges de littérature were published between 1803 and 1805.
Lithographed portrait of Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard by Julien Léopold Boilly (Jules Boilly), after the portrait made by François Gérard in 1802.
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Engraved portrait of Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard by Charles Simon Pradier, after the portrait made by François Gérard in 1802.
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• Born — 15 January 1732 • Birthplace — Besançon, France • Died — 20 July 1817 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — Journalist Translator Literary critic • Spouse — Amélie Panckoucke
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Recorded positions include perpetual secretary of the French Academy and seat 26 of the Académie française. He belonged to Académie Française, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony.
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1732
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard born at Besançon.
1817
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard died at rue Royale.
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- 1.Jean-Baptiste-Antoine SUARD Académie française. www.academie-francaise.fr.
- 2.Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard. Honoré Champion. 2002. 978-2-74530-495-7.
- 3.French Salons. JHU Press. 2006. 978-0-8018-8386-6.
- 4.French Drama of the Revolutionary Years. Routledge. 1990. 978-0-41500-808-2.
- 5.Interrompu au 18 fructidor, ce journal a reparu successivement sous les titres de : le Nouvelliste, le Narrateur universel, le Narrateur politique, et enfin le Publiciste, titre conservé du 7 nivôse an VI jusqu’au , époque à laquelle il cesse définitivement de paraitre.
- 6.Daniel Gordon. Citizens without Sovereignty. Princeton University Press. 1994. 978-0-69105-699-9.
- 7.Chasse et cueillette, élevage, agriculture et enfin, commerce.
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Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard received Knight of the Order of Saint Michael and Officer of the Legion of Honour. Recorded as writer, literary critic, linguist, translator and censor.
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