DESMAISEAUX, PIERRE (16731745); French writer, was born at Saillat, probably in 1673. His father, a minister of the reformed church, had to leave France on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and took refuge in Geneva, where Pierre was educated. Bayle

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DESMAISEAUX, PIERRE (16731745); French writer, was born at Saillat, probably in 1673. His father, a minister of the reformed church, had to leave France on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and took refuge in Geneva, where Pierre was educated. Bayle gave him an introduction to the 3rd Lord

Shaftesbury

SHAFTESBURY
SHAFTESBURY, ANTHONY
ASHLEY
- ASHLEY, WILLIAM JAMES (186o- )
COOPER, 1ST EARL OF (1621-1683)
SHAFTESBURY, ANTHONY
ASHLEY
- ASHLEY, WILLIAM JAMES (186o- )
COOPER, 7TH EARL OF (1801–1885)
SHAFTESBURY, ANTHONYASHLEY COOPER, 3RD EARL OF (1671-1713)

, with whom, in 1699, he came to England, where he engaged in literary

work

WORK

. He remained in close

touch

TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

with the religious refugees in England and Holland, and constantly in correspondence with the leading continental savants and writers, who were in the habit of employing him to conduct such business as they might have in England. In 1720 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. Among his works are Vie de St Evremond (1711), Vie de Boileau-Despreaux (1712), Vie de Bayle (1930). He also took an active

part

PART

in preparing the Bibliothbque raisonnee des ouvrages de l'Europe (1728-1753), and the Bibliotheque britannique (1733-1747), and edited a selection of St Evremond's writings (1706).

Part

PART

Desmaiseaux

DESMAISEAUX, PIERRE (1673–1745);
French
writer, was born at Saillat, probably in 1673. His father, a minister of the reformed church, had to leave France on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and took refuge in Geneva, where Pierre was educated. Bayle

's correspondence is pre-served in the British Museum, and other letters are in the royal library at

Copenhagen

COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

. He died on the

lath

LATH (0. Eng. laett, Mid. Eng. lappe, a form possibly due to the Welsh llath; the word appears in many Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
, cf. Dutch lat, Ger. Latte, and has passed into Romanic, cf. Ital. latta, Fr. latte)

of July 1745.

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