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DUTENS, LOUIS (1730-1812)

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DUTENS, See also:LOUIS (1730-1812) , See also:French writer, was See also:born at See also:Tours, of See also:Protestant parents, on the 15th of See also:January 1730. He went to See also:London, where his See also:uncle was a jeweller, and there obtained a situation as See also:tutor in a private See also:family. In this position he learnt See also:Greek and See also:mathematics, and studied See also:oriental See also:languages, also See also:Italian and See also:Spanish. He took orders, and was appointed See also:chaplain and secretary to the See also:English See also:minister at the See also:court of See also:Turin in See also:October 1758. In 176o—1762 he was See also:charge d'affaires at Turin. See also:Lord See also:Bute, before retiring from See also:office in 1763, procured him a See also:pension. He again went to Turin as charge d'affaires; and during this second See also:mission he collected and published a See also:complete edition of the See also:works of See also:Leibnitz (See also:Geneva, 6 vols., 1768) and wrote his Recherches sur l'origine See also:des decouvertes attribuees aux modernes (1766). On his return to See also:England the See also:duke of See also:Northumberland procured him the living of Elsdon, in Northumberland, and made him tutor to his son. In 1775 he became a member of the French See also:Academy of See also:Inscriptions and a See also:fellow of the Royal Society. Dutens was for a third See also:time charge d'affaires at Turin. He was in See also:Paris in 1783, and returned to London the following See also:year. He died in London on the 23rd of May 1812.

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principal works of Dutens were his Recherches surl'origine des dicouvertes attribuees aux modernes (1766, 2 vols.); Appel au bon See also:sens (London, 1777, 8vo), directed in See also:defence of See also:Christianity against the French philosophers, and published anonymously; Explication de guelques medailles de peuples, de rois et de villes grecques et pheniciennes (London, 1773) ; Explication de quelques medailles du See also:cabinet de Duane (1774) ; Troisieme dissertation sur guelques medailles grecques et pheniciennes (1776) ; Logique, ou l'See also:art de raisonner (1773); Des pierres precieuses et des pierres fines, avec See also:les moyens de les connaitre et de les evaluer (Paris, 1776) ; Itiniraire des routes les plus frequentees, ou See also:journal d'un voyage aux principales villes d'See also:Europe (Paris, 1775), frequently republished; Considerations theologiques sur les moyens de reunir toutes les eglises chretiennes (1798); (Euvres melees, containing his most important works published up to the date (London, 1797, 4 vols.) ; L'Ami des strangers qui voyagent en Angleterre (1789, 8vo) ; Histoire de ce qui s'est passe pour le retablissement d'une regence en Angleterre (1789); Recherches sur le tems le plus recule de l'usage des mites chez les anciens (1795) ; Memoires d'un voyageur qui se repose (Paris, 1786, 3 vols.). The first two volumes of the last-named See also:work contain the See also:life of the author, written in a romantic See also:style; the third bears the See also:title of Dutensiana, and is filled with remarks, anecdotes and bons mots.

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