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About Claude Brossette
- Claude Brossette, seigneur de Varennes d'Appetour (November 7, 1671, Theizé, Lyonnais - 1743) was a French lawyer and writer.
- He was educated at the Collège de la Trinité in Lyon and joined the Jesuits before turning to law. In 1700 he founded the Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Lyon, where he remained a bibliothecarian until 1743, and whose secretary he was appointed in 1724. Brossette was a man of far-reaching connections, exchanging letters with Academy President Bouhier, Abbot Olivet and Father Vanière from Toulouse.
- Between 1699 and 1710 he was a regular correspondent of Paris poet and satirist Boileau, whose works he edited with commentaries.
- Their correspondence was published in 1770 by François Louis Cizeron Rival.
- He was acquainted with François de Lamoignon and Bernard de La Monnoye from the Académie Française, and with Jean-Baptiste Rousseau.
- Later his reach widened; he exchanged point of views with Voltaire, Louis Racine, Abbot Lenglet-Dufresnoy, DĂ©on, and Father Brumoy.
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