Louis-Jean Lévesque de Pouilly
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Louis-Jean Lévesque de Pouilly (1691, Reims - 1750, Paris) was a French philosopher. A member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, he founded the ESAD de Reims.
Lévesque de Pouilly studied philosophy and literature in Paris. He was a friend of Nicolas Fréret and Lord Bolingbroke, met Isaac Newton in England, and is likely to have hosted David Hume in Reims.[1]
Works
- Dissertation sur l'incertitude de l'histoire des premiers siècles de Rome, 1723
- Théorie des sentiments agréables, 1736.
References
- ^ Perinetti, Dario (2006), "Pouilly, Louis-Jean Lévesque de", in Haakonssen, Knud (ed.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, p. 1209
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