Jacques Moisant de Brieux
Deceased Person
1611 – 1674
Who was Jacques Moisant de Brieux?
Jacques Moisant de Brieux was a French poet and historian.
Born at Caen in an aristocratic Huguenot family on 13 May 1611, Moisant de Brieux had Antoine Halley as his first preceptor before continuing his studies in the best Protestant institutions of his time. At the Academy of Sedan, he met the Duke of Montausier, who was to become his friend and protector. At Leiden University, he studied for two years under Professor Gerardus Vossius. He then went on to study in English libraries while attending courses taught by the best teachers of England.
Upon his return in France, he became an attorney-at-law and held the office of Counselor at the Parliament of Metz. Forced to resign his office for health reasons, he returned to his hometown. Moisant very missed Caen, and he found there that cultivating the humanities provided him with an outlet for the ills he suffered.
He supported intellectual endeavors among his fellow Caen denizens by inviting into his Hôtel d'Escoville a group of educated people who were to become the Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Caen, the first such academy to have been founded in France, after the French Academy.
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- Born
- May 13, 1611
Caen - Education
- Leiden University
- Died
- May 20, 1674
Caen
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on July 23, 2013
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