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MALLET, PAUL HENRI (173o–18o7)

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MALLET, See also:PAUL See also:HENRI (173o–18o7) , Swiss writer, was See also:born of an old Huguenot See also:family, was born near See also:Geneva in 1749, the on the loth of See also:August 1730, in Geneva. After having been son of a See also:Protestant See also:minister. He was educated at Geneva, and educated there, he became See also:tutor in the family of the See also:count of through the See also:influence of See also:Voltaire obtained a professorship at See also:Calenberg in See also:Saxony. In 1752 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:Cassel. He soon, however, resigned this See also:post, and going to belles lettres to the See also:academy at See also:Copenhagen. He was naturally See also:London joined H. S. N. See also:Linguet in the See also:production of his Annales attracted to the study of the See also:ancient literature and See also:history of his politiques (1778–1780). During Linguet's imprisonment in the adopted See also:country, and in 1755 he published the first fruits of his See also:Bastille Mallet du See also:Pan continued the Annales by himself (178r–researches, under the See also:title Introduction a l'histoire du Dane- 1783); but Linguet resented this on his See also:release, and Mallet du marck oit l'on traite de la See also:religion, See also:des mceurs, des lois, et des usages Pan changed the title of his own publication to Memoires histodes anciens Danois. A second See also:part, more particularly See also:relating riques (1783). From 1783 he incoporated this See also:work with the to the ancient literature of the country, Monuments de la mytho- Mercure de See also:France in See also:Paris, the See also:political direction of which had See also:logic et de la poesie des See also:Celtes, et particulierement des anciens been placed in his hands.

On the outbreak of the See also:

French Scandinaves, was issued in 1756, and was also translated into Revolution he sided with the Royalists, and was sent on a See also:mission Danish. A See also:translation into See also:English, with notes and See also:preface, by I (1791–1742) by See also:Louis XVI. to See also:Frankfort to try and secure the sympathy and intervention of the See also:German princes. From See also:Germany he travelled to See also:Switzerland and from Switzerland to See also:Brussels in the Royalist See also:interest. He published a number of See also:anti-revolutionary See also:pamphlets, and a violent attack on See also:Bonaparte and the See also:Directory resulted in his being exiled in 1797 to Berne. In 1798 he came to London, where he founded the Mercure britannique. He died at See also:Richmond, See also:Surrey, on the loth of May 1800, his widow being pensioned by the English See also:government. Mallet du Pan has a See also:place in history as a See also:pioneer of See also:modern political journalism. His son See also:JOHN See also:LEWIS MALLET (1775—1861) spent a useful See also:life in the English See also:civil service, becoming secretary of the See also:Board of See also:Audit; and J. L. Mallet's second son, See also:SIR Louts MALLET (1823—1890) also entered the civil service in the Board of See also:Trade and See also:rose to be a distinguished economist and a member of the See also:Council of See also:India. Mallet du Pan's Mimoires et correspondance was edited by A. Sayous (Paris, 1851).

See Mallet du Pan and the French Revolution (1902), by See also:

Bernard Mallet, son of Sir Louis Mallet, author also of a See also:biography of his See also:father (1900).

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