Jean-Louis Bergeret, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French lawyer
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Place of Birth: Paris, Ăle-de-France, France
About Jean-Louis Bergeret
- Jean-Louis Bergeret (11 December 1641, Paris â 9 October 1694) was an early holder of the 8th seat of the AcadĂ©mie française. Bergeret was Advocate General to the Metz Parliament in 1672, and became the first deputy of Charles Colbert, marquis de Croissy, the Secretary of State and younger brother of Jean Baptiste Colbert, and then the King's Cabinet Secretary. When Bergeret was presented for election to the Academy, he had the support of all of the Colbert family, against Gilles MĂ©nage, by then an octogenarian, who though much more senior had previously displeased the Academy with his RequĂȘte des Dictionnaires ("Requirements for Dictionaries"). Bergeret was elected on 4 December 1684 to replace GĂ©raud de Cordemoy, who had killed himself in October of that year, and was received on 2 January 1685 by Jean Racine, the same day as Thomas Corneille. Little is known of him beyond his election and acceptance speech, and that he received into the Academy François-TimolĂ©on de Choisy and François FĂ©nelon.
- The Abbé d'Olivet remarked "Nobody knows how he got through the doors of the Academy".
- He left no writing nor, it seems, anything memorable to his contemporaries.
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