Difference between revisions of "Louis Dutens"

<p> was born at Tours, France, January 16, 1730. When he was about eighteen his sister was put into a convent by order of the archbishop of Tours. This violence so irritated the young man that he left his country and settled in England, where he entered the ministry of the [[Established]] Church, and became rector of Elsdon, in Northumberland. He died in London, March 23, 1812. Dutens was a man of varied culture; was a member of the [[Royal]] Society, and had the title of historiographer to the king. [[Besides]] writing numerous works in science and literature, he edited the works of Leibnitz, [[Opera]] Omnia nuncprimum collecta, etc. (Geneva, 1769, 6 volumes, 4to); [[Le]] Tocsin, 1769 (against the infidels of the 18th century; reprinted under the title, [[Appeal]] to [[Good]] [[Sense]] (London, 1777, 8vo); [[De]] ieglise, du Pape, etc. (Geneva, 1781,. 8vo); Recherches sur origine des decouvertes attribues aux modernes (Paris, 1766, 8vo; 4th edition, 1812, 8vo; translated, An [[Inquiry]] into the [[Origin]] of the [[Discoveries]] attributed to the Moderns, London, 1769, 8vo). Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, 15:496. </p>