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{{Short description|French writer (1746–1805)}} ...çois Xavier Cousin De Grainville''' (3 April 1746 – 1 February 1805) was a French [[writer]] who wrote a seminal work of [[science fantasy|fantasy]] literatu ...

{{Short description|18th-century Spanish ecclesiastical historian}} ...s. The first published was his ''Clavis Historiae'', a work similar to the French ''Art de verifier les dates'', and preceding it by several years. It appear ...

{{Short description|French mathematician}} ...hematicians: Gua de Malves, Jean<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>) was a French [[mathematician]] who published in 1740 a work on [[analytical geometry]] i ...

...''[[The Rape of the Lock|Rape of the Lock]]'' (1744) and other English and French works. After her death her husband edited her ''Sämtliche kleinere Gedicht [[Category:18th-century German women writers]] ...

{{Short description|French Catholic theological writer}} '''Pierre François le Courayer''' (17 November 1681 – 17 October 1776) was a French [[Roman Catholic|Catholic]] [[theology|theological]] writer, for many years ...

...a supporter of the Enlightenment ideas, he wrote in favor of the [[France|French]] on their invasion of Italy in 1797; he received a pension, and was made k [[Category:18th-century Italian poets]] ...

...ist, and revolutionary. When Mainz was occupied by the French during the [[French Revolutionary Wars]], she moved into Forster's house. Mainz was declared a [[Category:18th-century German scholars]] ...

...nch Revolution]].{{Citation needed|reason=The poem makes no mention of the French Revolution|date=July 2020}} ...cism, but received [[Absolution (religious)|absolution]] at the hands of a French priest, though public Mass for his soul was forbidden by the ecclesiastical ...

[[Category:Translators from French]] [[Category:18th-century Scottish scientists]] ...

...for the freedom of the imagination from the restriction imposed upon it by French pseudo-[[classicism]]. Bodmer's epics ''Die Sundflutz'' and ''Noah'' (both ...tor]]''. In it, German poetry was severely criticised for its servility to French models. Through his prose translation of [[John Milton|Milton]]'s ''[[Parad ...

...t Gyrowetz]] and C. Weigl (Weisenhaus, The Orphanage), and translated many French operas into German. In 1814, he revised the libretto of ''[[Fidelio]]'' at [[Category:18th-century German musicians]] ...

{{short description|18th-century Spanish writer and fabulist}} ...he [[king of Spain]]. At 18 Tomás began his literary career by translating French plays for the royal theatre, and in 1770, under the [[anagram]] of Tirso Im ...

{{Short description|18th-century French historian and linguist}} ...eigneur de Vezins et de Prevessin''' (7 February 1709 – 7 May 1777), was a French scholar of the 18th century. ...

...n Laursen, Johan van der Zande, Élie Luzac, Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, ''Early French and German defenses of freedom of the press: Elie Luzac's essay on Freedom ...igrés, in connection with whom he began literary life in 1713 by editing a French journal.<ref name=brit1911>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Dutch Literature |volume= ...

...rammar in Mexico City, and during those years he learned [[French language|French]]. For reasons of health he returned to Veracruz, where he taught for two y [[Category:18th-century Mexican Roman Catholic priests]] ...

...le polyglot, he spoke five languages: [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Latin]], French, [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and [[Ottoman Turkish language|Turkish]]. [[Category:18th-century translators]] ...

...{{sfn|Stamatiadis|1865|pp=152–153}} In this post, he also translated three French military manuals for the reformed [[Nizam-i Djedid Army]] then being create [[Category:18th-century translators]] ...

{{Short description|French writer}} ...bn=978-0-500-29115-3 |page=102}}</ref> it was prosecuted and burned by the French court of justice. ...

...e of the time of Catherine went hand in hand with a complete dependence on French literary tastes. ...es to grind. ''The Brigadier-General'' is a satire against the fashionable French semi-education of the ''petits-maîtres''. It is full of excellent fun, and ...

...honour. This medal is part of a series in order to commemorate illustrious French men illustrating his renown at the time.<ref>http://hdl.handle.net/10900/10 [[Category:18th-century antiquarians]] ...