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Durand, David, 1680-1763


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    • Durand, D. (David), 1680-1763
    • D. D. (David Durand), 1680-1763
    • D., D. (David Durand), 1680-1763
    • M. D****, 1680-1763
    • D****, M., 1680-1763
    • Durand, Mr. (David), 1680-1763

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    • found: His La chute de l'homme, 1729:t.p. (David Durand)
    • found: His Exercices françois & anglois pour les enfans, 1746:(D. D. de la S. R.)
    • found: DNB(Durand, David, 1680-1763; French protestant minister and author)
    • found: Oxford DNB, Aug. 11, 2014(Durand, David (1680-1763): "Reformed minister and historian; born at Sommières in Languedoc and studied for the ministry at Basel. Thence he went to the Netherlands, and accompanied a corps of French refugees to Spain. Taken prisoner at the battle of Almanza in 1707, he would have been burnt alive by some peasants but for the intervention of the duke of Berwick. He was sent to France, but succeeded in escaping to Switzerland, ultimately finding his way back to the Netherlands, where he became a pastor at Rotterdam ... He left the Netherlands for London in 1711, and was successively pastor of the conformist French churches in St Martin's Lane and the Savoy, later Les Grecs. He became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1728. Durand was a voluminous author and translator. Among his works, all in French, are a history of the sixteenth century (1725-9) and ... a continuation of Paul Rapin's History of England (1734) ... He never married and died on 16 January 1763")
    • found: Traité de la prosodie françoise, 1755:t.p. (Mr. Durand)
    • found: Connoissance des beautez et des défauts, de la poesie & de l'eloquence dans la langue française, 1750:title page (par M. D****)
    • found: Cronk, Nicholas. "Appendice II: La Connaissance des beautés de Durand," in Voltaire. Writings of 1750-1752 (Voltaire. Works, 1968-, v. 32B), 2007:pages 357-358 (Theodore Besterman convincingly attributed Connaissance des beautés to David Durand, a French Huguenot minister living in London; the testimony of Voltaire's letter to Mme. Denis, Mar. 31, 1754 (in Besterman's edition of Voltaire's correspondence, D5755), ascribing the work to Durand, is decisive)
    • notfound: Lettres choisies de Voltaire : avec le Traité de la connaissance des beautés et des défauts de la poésie et de l'eloquence dans la langue française, 1876, via HathiTrust, Aug. 11, 2014

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    • 1987-06-27: new
    • 2014-08-12: revised

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