Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

Herausgegeben:Miller, Frederic P.; Vandome, Agnes F.; McBrewster, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (6 December 1721 23 April 1794), often referred to as Malesherbes or Lamoignon-Malesherbes, was a French statesman, minister, and afterwards counsel for the defence of Louis XVI. Born at Paris from a famous legal family, he was educated for the legal profession. The young lawyer soon proved his intellectual capacity, when he was appointed president of the cour des aides in the parlement of Paris in 1750 on the promotion of his father, Guillaume de Lamoignon de Blancmesnil, to be chancellor. One of the chancellor's duties was to control the press, and this duty was entrusted to Malesherbes by his father during his eighteen years of office, and brought him into connection with the public far more than his judicial functions. To carry it out efficiently he kept in communication with the literary leaders of Paris, and especially with Diderot, and Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm even goes sofar as to say that "without the assistance of Malesherbes the Encyclopédie would probably never have been published".

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 68
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786131666148
• ISBN-10: 6131666148
• Artikelnr.: 29779384