Brosses, Charles de, 1709-1777

LC control no.	n 86869587
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Brosses, Charles de, 1709-1777 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	De Brosses, Charles, 1709-1777 Debrosses, Charles, 1709-1777 Brosses, président de, 1709-1777 Montfalcon, Charles de Brosses, baron de, 1709-1777 Tournay, Charles de Brosses, comte de, 1709-1777
Other standard no.	59079671 0000000109051750
Birth date	17090217 17090617
Death date	17770507 17770317
Place of birth	Dijon (France)
Place of death	Paris (France) Dijon (France)
Field of activity	Law--France Learning and scholarship French literature--18th century
Affiliation	France. Parlement (Dijon) Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France) Académie de Dijon (France : 1740-1762) Académie des sciences, arts et belles lettres de Dijon (France)
Profession or occupation	Judges Scholars Authors, French
Found in	His Lettres d'Italie, 1986: t.p. (président de Brosses) introd. (Charles de Brosses) p. 41 (b. 2/7/1709, Dijon) p. 45 (d. 5/7/1777, Paris) LC data base, 12/8/86 (hdg.: Brosses, Charles de, 1709-1777) GDEL (Brosses (Charles de) magistrat et écrivain français (Dijon 1709, Paris 1777)) Voltaire. Correspondance inédite de Voltaire avec Frédéric II, le président de Brosses et autres personnages, 1836 Dictionnaire de biographie française, t. 7, 1956 (Brosses, Charles de, premier président of Parlement de Dijon (also called Parlement de Bourgogne); born Dijon, Feb. 7, 1709; died on a trip to Paris, May 7, 1777; describes quarrel with Voltaire) Cioranescu, A. Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-huitième siècle, 1969: v. 1, page 405 (Brosses (Charles de), Dijon, 17 June 1709-Dijon, 17 March 1777) Bibliothèque nationale de France. BnF autorités, May 8, 2015 (Brosses, Charles de (1709-1777); born 1709-02-07, Dijon, died 1777-05-07, Paris; président of Parlement de Bourgogne and "érudit polygraphe") French Wikipedia, May 8, 2015 (Charles de Brosses, comte de Tournay, baron de Montfalcon, seigneur de Pregny, de Chambezy, de Vezins et de Prevessin, called "le président de Brosses"; French magistrate, historian, linguist and author, born Dijon, 17 Feb. 1709; died Paris, 7 May 1777; source for birthdate is baptismal record on Web site of Archives départementales de la Côte d'Or (linked)) Archives départementales de la Côte d'Or Web site, May 8, 2015: FRAD021_239_5MI09R041_0492 (electronic facsimile of baptismal record of "Charles fils de messire Charles Debrosses seign. baron de Montfalcon, con[seill]er au Parlement"; baptized on February 17, 1709, the day of his birth) <http://archivesenligne.cotedor.fr/ark/71137/8m9bz4242q9tvnm9#> Damian-Grint, Peter. Biographical note, January 2009, on Electronic Enlightenment Web site, viewed May 8, 2015 (Charles de Brosses, baron de Montfalcon, 7 February 1709, Dijon-7 May 1777, Paris; magistrate, scholar, academic; "Educated at the Jesuit Collège de Dijon; studied law; appointed conseiller à la grand'chambre of the parlement de Bourgogne 1730; président à mortier 1740; premier président 1775. A keen amateur scholar of very wide interests, including history, linguistics and geography; associate of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres 1750; honorary member of the Académie de Dijon 1761. Author of numerous articles and a number of works including Lettres sur l'état actuel de la ville souterraine d'Herculée (1750), Histoire des navigations aux terres Australes (1756), Traité de la formation mécanique des langues (1765); he is best known for his posthumously published Lettres écrites d'Italie (1799)") <http://www.e-enlightenment.com/person/brosscharl000917>
Associated language	fre