Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet
Illustration — L'abbé d'Olivet. Portrait after Charles André van Loo. Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet, Abbot of Olivet (1 April 1682, Salins-les-Bains – 8 October 1768, Paris) was a French abbot, writer, grammarian and translator.
Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet
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- 1682 · Salins-les-Bains.
- Died
- 1768 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
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- linguist · translator · writer
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- French
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Illustration — L'abbé d'Olivet. Portrait after Charles André van Loo. Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet, Abbot of Olivet (1 April 1682, Salins-les-Bains – 8 October 1768, Paris) was a French abbot, writer, grammarian and translator.
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He was elected the fourth occupant of Académie française seat 31.
Olivet's father was a counselor in the Parlement of Dole. Olivet joined the Jesuits and studied at the Jesuit colleges of Rheims, Dijon, and Paris, writing poetry and Latin prose, before leaving the Jesuits in 1713. He co-founded the Academy of Besançon.
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1682
Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet born at Salins-les-Bains.
1768
Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet died at Paris.
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His publications include; • Translation of Cicero (1740-1742, 9 vols. 4to) • Histoire de l'Academie Franqaise (1729, 2 vols. 4to; 1730, 2 vols. 12mo)
Title L'abbé d'Olivet Contributor Thoulier d'Olivet, Pierre Joseph (1682-1768) (depicted) Restout, Jean Bernard (French printmaker, painter, draughtsman, 1732-1797) (artist) (designer) Levasseur, Charles (French printmaker, printer, publisher, 1734-1816) (artist) (graphic artist) Date s.d Publisher (1755-1850) Genre Portraits Extent voorstelling: 237 x 170 mm voorstelling met opschrift: 242 x 170
Restout, Jean Bernard (French printmaker, painter, draughtsman, 1732-1797) (artist) (designer) · https: collectionId=81531994540001488 lang=en sortItemsBy=date_a query=any,contains,PA03978
Title L'abbé d'Olivet Contributor Thoulier d'Olivet, Pierre Joseph (1682-1768) (depicted) Restout, Jean Bernard (French printmaker, painter, draughtsman, 1732-1797) (artist) (designer) Levasseur, Charles (French printmaker, printer, publisher, 1734-1816) (artist) (graphic artist) Date s.d Publisher (1750-1800) Genre Portraits Extent voorstelling: 236 x 170 mm voorstelling met opschrift: 241 x 170
Restout, Jean Bernard (French printmaker, painter, draughtsman, 1732-1797) (artist) (designer) · https: collectionId=81531994540001488 lang=en sortItemsBy=date_a query=any,contains,7C377/061
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- 1.Raoul Bonnet. Isographie de l’Académie française. Noël Charvay. 1907.
- 2.Éloge historique et littéraire de l’abbé d’Olivet. Hachette. 1839.
- 3.Voltaire, Le siècle de Louis XIV, 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.
- 4.Abbe d'Olivet, Traité de prosodie françoise, 1736.
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- Pierre-François Guyot Desfontaines, Racine vengé ou Examen des remarques grammaticales de M. l'Abbé d'Olivet, sur les œuvres de Racine, 1739, .
- Charles Batteux, De la Construction oratoire, 1763.
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