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TURPIN, FRANCOIS HENRI (17og-1799)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 482 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TURPIN, See also:FRANCOIS See also:HENRI (17og-1799) , See also:French See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Caen. He was first a See also:professor at the university of his native See also:town, then went to seek his fortunes in See also:Paris, where he made some stir in philosophical circles, and especially in that of the magnificent Helvetius; but he was only enabled with difficulty to See also:earn a livelihood by putting his See also:pen at the service of the booksellers. He translated, or rather adapted from the See also:English, See also:Edward W. Montague's Histoire du gouvernement See also:des anciennes republiques (1768), and wrote a continuation of See also:Father See also:Pierre See also:Joseph d'See also:Orleans, Histoire des revolutions d'Angleterre (1786). His Histoire naturelle et civile du royaume de See also:Siam (1771) is an interesting but faulty See also:adaptation of the observations of a See also:vicar-apostolic who had lived for a See also:long See also:time in that See also:country, and who accused Turpin of having misrepresented his ideas. His See also:chief See also:work, La See also:France illustre, ou Le Plutarque See also:francais, containsthe See also:biographies of generals, ministers, and eminent See also:officers of the See also:law (5 vols., 1777-1790), in which, however, as La Harpe said, he showed himself to be " ni Plutarque ni Francais." He also wrote an Histoire des hommes publics See also:tire's du tiers etat (1789).

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