Louis Boivin
Louis Boivin (1649–1724) was a French writer and the elder brother of Jean Boivin the Younger.
Biography
Born on March 20, 1649 in Montreuil-l'Argilé, a small town in Normandy in the diocese of Lizieux, to his father Louis Boivin, a lawyer, and his mother Marie Vattier, brother of Pierre Vattier, Louis Boivin studied at the Jesuit college in Rouen before moving to Paris to study philosophy at the Collège Du Plessis, followed by theology, jurisprudence and medicine. But it was in literature that he came into contact with Jean Chapelain.
In 1701, he was admitted to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, where he became a boarder in 1722. In 1703, he published a Dissertation on the Julian Period, before writing Sur les différentes manières d'écrire une date, following in the footsteps of the grammarian Censorin De die natali. This was followed by Histoire de Zarine & de Stryangée, taken from Histoire Universelle by Nicolaus of Damascus. In 1714, he gave a Dissertation sur les Rois Pasteurs at the Académie, which led to a dispute with Antoine Banier over the reign of the Israelites in Egypt.
Outside the Académie, he composed three French chronological poems under his own name, Vers Acromonostiques.
Life
A member of the Académie des inscriptions, he wrote Mémoires sur la Chronologie in which, according to the Dictionnaire Bouillet he jumped too easily to his derivations.
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- 18th-century French writers
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