Marin Cureau de la Chambre
Illustration — Marin Cureau de la Chambre Marin Cureau de la Chambre (1594 – 29 December 1669) was a French physician and philosopher born in Saint-Jean-d'Assé, a village near Le Mans. • Illustration — La lumiere, 1662 Details of his youth and where he attended school are unknown. He was initially a physician in Le Mans, and around 1630 moved to Paris, where he became a friend and physician to Pierre Séguier (1588–1672). Afterwards, he was a médecin ordinaire to Louis XIV. Reportedly the monarch was impressed by Cureau de la Chambre's ability to judge human character based on physical appearance.
Marin Cureau de la Chambre
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- Born
- 1594 · Le Mans.
- Died
- 1669 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- physician · philosopher · writer
- Education
- Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Marin Cureau de la Chambre Marin Cureau de la Chambre (1594 – 29 December 1669) was a French physician and philosopher born in Saint-Jean-d'Assé, a village near Le Mans. • Illustration — La lumiere, 1662 Details of his youth and where he attended school are unknown. He was initially a physician in Le Mans, and around 1630 moved to Paris, where he became a friend and physician to Pierre Séguier (1588–1672). Afterwards, he was a médecin ordinaire to Louis XIV. Reportedly the monarch was impressed by Cureau de la Chambre's ability to judge human character based on physical appearance.
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Largely known for his work in physiognomy. Between 1640 and 1662 he published a five-volume study on mans' character and "passions" called Caractères des passions. He wrote articles on many other topics, including palmistry, digestion, "reasoning" in animals, occult practices and optics. On the latter subject he investigated the nature of light and color, refractions, and the possibility of primary and secondary colors. He was the author of books on philosophy, and published a translation of Aristotle's Physica. In 1634 he became an early member of the Académie française, and in 1666 was an original member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was the father of clergyman Pierre Cureau de La Chambre (1640–1693) and of François Cureau de La Chambre (1630-1680) who succeeded him at the Botanical Garden (Jardin des Plantes). He died in Paris on December 29, 1669. In 1991 astronomer Eric Walter Elst named the asteroid 7126 Cureau after Marin Cureau de la Chambre.
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1594
Marin Cureau de la Chambre born at Le Mans.
1662
Traité de la connoissance des animaux (Marin Cureau de La Chambre) (1662) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1662
Les characteres des passions, t. 5 (Marin Cureau de La Chambre) (1662) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1662
Les characteres des passions, t. 1 (Marin Cureau de La Chambre) digitised by Internet Archive.
1669
Marin Cureau de la Chambre died at Paris.
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Pierre Chanet, Polemicist and Philosopher of Instinct and Marin Cureau de la Chambre: The Story of a Dispute, Roczniki Filozoficzne, 2015
UN ESPERTO LAICO D'ANIME: MARIN CUREAU DE LA CHAMBRE (1596-1669), Nuncius, 1988
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- 1.Julie Chevallier. Marin Cureau de la Chambre (1595-1669), médecin ordinaire de Louis XIII et Louis XIV, et homme de lettres du XVIIe siècle : la construction d’une identité sociale et professionnelle. HAL open science. 7 mai 2025.
- 2.René Kerviler, « Marin Cureau de la Chambre » Revue historique et archéologique du Maine, 1877, 29-78, 131-182 et 343-377, ill.
- 3.Tyrtée Tastet, Histoire des quarante fauteuils de l’Académie française depuis la fondation jusqu’à nos jours, 1635-1855, volume IV, p. 399, 1855.
- 4.Lien conférence fr auteur1= Georges ROQUE Petite promenade à travers champs disciplinaires dans les domaines colorés 2 août 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC-Fsvvi_aw&t=476s consulté le= 16 octobre 2025 lieu Fleurance#Festival du Ciel et de l'Espace Festival d'astronomie de Fleurance date 2-8 août 2025 Fleurance (Gers) 2025, 35 èm consulté le=16 octobre 2016 accès libre .
- 5.Marin Cureau de La Chambre, Les Charactères des passions, Advis nécessaire au Lecteur, vol. I, 1640.
- 6.René Kerviler, Le Maine à l'Académie française - III- Pierre Cureau de La Chambre (1640-1693), dans Revue historique et archéologique du Maine, tome 2, 1877, (lire en ligne)
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