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	Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle - LoveToKnow 1911
		BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE (1657-1757), French author, was born at Rouen, on the 11th of February 1657.
		Fontenelle afterwards acknowledged the justice of the public verdict by burning his unfortunate drama.
		Fontenelle forms a link between two very widely different periods of French literature, that of Corneille, Racine and Boileau on the one hand, and that of Voltaire, D'Alembert and Diderot on the other.
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	Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle at AllExperts
		Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, also referred to as Bernard le Bouyer de Fontenelle (February 11, 1657–January 9, 1757) was a French author.
		Fontenelle had made his home in Rouen, but in 1687 he moved to Paris; and in the same year he published his Histoire des oracles, a book which made a considerable stir in theological and philosophical circles.
		Fontenelle was a popular figure in the educated French society of his period, holding a position of esteem comparable only to that of Voltaire.
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	Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, also referred to as Bernard le Bouyer de Fontenelle (February 11, 1657–January 9, 1757) was a French author.
		Fontenelle had made his home in Rouen, but in 1687 he moved to Paris; and in the same year he published his Histoire des oracles, a book which made a considerable stir in theological and philosophical circles.
		Fontenelle was a popular figure in the educated French society of his period, holding a position of esteem comparable only to that of Voltaire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernard_le_Bovier_de_Fontenelle (1052 words)

	Encyclopedia: Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
		Fontenelle was born in Location within France Rouen (pronounced in French, sometimes also) is the historical capital city of Normandy, in northern France, and presently the capital of the Upper Normandy région.
		Fontenelle was a popular figure in the educated French society of his period, holding a position of esteem comparable only to that of Voltaire François_Marie Arouet (November 21, 1694—May 30, 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, deist and philosopher.
		Villemain, Tableau de la littérature française au XVIII siècle; the abbé Trublet, Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de M. de Fontenelle (1759); A Laborde_Milaà, Fontenelle (1905), in the "Grands écrivains français" series; and L Maigron, Fontenelle, l'homme, l'oeuvre, l'influence (Paris, 1906).
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	Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fontenelle afterwards acknowledged the justice of the public verdict by burning his unfortunate drama.
		Hitherto Fontenelle had made his home in Rouen, but in 1687 he removed to Paris; and in the same year he published his Histoire des oracles, a book which made a considerable stir in theological and philosophical circles.
		It consisted of two essays, the first of which was designed to prove that oracles were not given by the supernatural agency of demons, and the second that they did not cease with the birth of Jesus Christ.
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	Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle (1657-1757) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fontenelle was elected to the Académie Française in 1691 and was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions in 1701.
		Fontenelle was a close friend of Montesquieu and well known to Voltaire, who mocked him in his Micromégas (1752), a dissertation on the smallness of man in relation to the cosmos.
		Fontenelle's most original contribution was in his approach to historiography, shown in his De l'origine des fables (1724; “Of the Origin of Fables”), in which he supports the theory that similar fables arise independently in several cultures and also tentatively addresses himself to comparative religion.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/Fontenelle/Fontenelle.html?eu=35418 (495 words)

	Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
		It consisted of two essays, the first of which was designed to prove that oracles were not given by the supernatural agency of demons, and the second that they did not cease with the birth of Jesus Christ.
		In 1691 he was received into the French Academy in spite of the determined efforts of the partisans of the ancients in this quarrel, especially of Jean Racine and Nicolas Boileau, who on four previous occasions had secured his rejection.
		This was first printed in the Nouvelles de la république des lettres (January 1685) and, as Vie de Corneille, was included in all the editions of Fontenelle's Oeuvres.
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	Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
		Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (February 11, 1657 - January 9, 1757), French author, was born at Rouen, on the 11th of February 1657.
		It consisted of two essays, the first of which was designed to prove that oracles were not given by the supernatural agency of demons, and the second that they did not cease with the birth of Christ.
		It isn't in virtue of his great age alone that this can be said of him; he actually had much in common with the beaux esprits of the 17th century, as well as with the philosophes of the 18th.
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	Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Biography and Summary
		Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Biography and Summary
		Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle achieved the unusual feat of bridging two ages by dint of his exceptional longevity as well as by the key role he played as a highly successful, respected, and influential mediator between the classical ideal of polite and...
		Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, also referred to as Bernard le Bouyer de Fontenelle(February 11, 1657 – January 9, 1757) was a French author.
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	Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle - Encyclopedia.com
		Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de, 1657-1757, French writer; nephew of Corneille.
		His works include Dialogues des morts (1683), observations on man; Histoire des oracles (1687), attacking superstition; L'Origine des fables (1724), on the origin of religions; and Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (1686), an exposition of the Copernican system.
		As secretary (1699-1741) of the Académie royale des Sciences, Fontenelle paved the way for the ideas of the Enlightenment.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Fontenel.html (264 words)

	Fontenelle Bernard le Bovier sieur de - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier, sieur de (1657-1757), French writer and scientist, born in Rouen.
		Bienville, Jean-Baptiste le Moyne, sieur de (1680-1768), French-Canadian explorer and colonial administrator, founder of Biloxi, Mississippi and...
		Iberville, Pierre Le Moyne, sieur d' (1661-1706), French-Canadian explorer and naval officer who fought against the British in Canada and founded...
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		official capacity that he wrote the Histoire du renouvellement del' Academie des Sciences (Paris, 3 vols., 1708, 1717, 1722) containing extracts and analyses of the proceedings, and also the doges of themembers, written with great simplicity and delicacy.
		The other important works of Fontenelle are his Elements de la geometric de l'infini (1727) and his Apologie des tourbillons (1752).
		main, Tableau de la literature frangaise au X VIII, siecle; the abbe Trublet, Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de M. de Fontenelle (1759); A.
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	AllRefer.com - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French Literature, Biographies
		Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle[bernAr´ lu bOvyA´ du fONtunel] Pronunciation Key, 1657–1757, French writer; nephew of Corneille.
		As secretary (1699–1741) of the AcadEmie royale des Sciences, Fontenelle paved the way for the ideas of the Enlightenment.
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	Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier de)
		Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de (1657-1757), philosophe et poète français qui annonça l'esprit des Lumières en vulgarisant des théories scientifiques nouvelles.
		Le coeur est la source de toutes les erreurs dont nous avons besoin.
		Le plaisir est comme un lit de roses, mais le pli d'une seule suffit pour incommoder beaucoup.
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	Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fontenelle reconoció luego la justicia del veredicto público quemándose su drama desafortunado.
		Fontenelle había hecho hasta ahora su hogar en Ruán, pero en 1687 él quitó a París; y en el mismo año él publicó sus oráculos del DES de Histoire, un libro que hizo que un considerable revuelve en círculos theological y filosóficos.
		Los otros trabajos importantes de Fontenelle son su l'infini de de la géometrie de de los elementos (1727) y sus lourbillons del DES de Apologie (1752).
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	Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		While siding with the "Moderns" in the famous Querelle des anciens et des modernes (Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns), he avoided the pitfall of subscribing without qualifications to the notion of progress.
		Fontenelle was born in Rouen, the capital of Normandy, on 11 February 1657, the son of a lawyer and member of the parlement of Rouen.
		Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle from Dictionary of Literary Biography.
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	Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier, sieur de -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		French scientist and author Bernard le Bovier, sieur de Fontenelle, was described by fellow French philosopher Voltaire as the most universal mind produced by the era of Louis XIV.
		Fontenelle was born on Feb. 11, 1657, in Rouen and was educated at the Jesuit college there.
		Finally, the end of Louis XIV's reign witnessed the critical debate known as the querelle des anciens et des modernes (Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns), a long-standing controversy that came to a head in the Académie and in various published works.
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	All words on Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
		:''For other uses of Fontenelle, see Fontenelle (disambiguation).'' Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, also referred to as Bernard le Bouyer de Fontenelle (February 11, 1657 - January 9, 1757) was a French author.
		Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de
		Tithonus must have looked just like this, and skipped like this, be the Chevalier de Ribaumont, and tried to make up for his want of where he lived on _soupe maigre_ in a corner of the ancestral Monsieur's suite, the other in that of the Queen-mother.
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	Fontenelle biography
		Bernard de Fontenelle was educated in a Jesuit College in Rouen and became friends with Varignon and de l'Hôpital.
		Fontenelle's most famous work was Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (1686).
		He was elected to the Académie Française in 1691 and became permanent secretary of the
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Fontenelle.html (246 words)

	Nouvelles libertés de penser - [FONTENELLE, BERNARD LE BOVIER (1557-1757)] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ascribed to Fontenelle and with essays by Victor de Riquetti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715-1789) and Dumarsais (1676-1756).
		The five essays are "Réflexions sur l'argument de M. Pascal & de M. Locke, concernant la possibilité d'une autre vie a venir" (by Fontenelle); "Sentiments des Philosophes sur la nature de l'ame" (Mirabeau); "Traité de la liberté par M.
		A religious sceptic, Fontenelle, who lived nearly to 100, was influenced by Descartes and is considered a forerunner of the Enlightenment.
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	Lexique des Normands
		Les autres Leber américains sont quant à eux d'origine germanique (Allemagne, Suisse, Autriche, Hongrie, Tchécoslovaquie) nombreux du sud du Danube au Rhin.
		Le roi lui accorda des lettres de noblesse et une pension en 1764.
		Le cardinal de Richelieu lui donna l'inspection de l'imprimerie du Louvre, avec un traitement de 2.000 livres.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /aetius/normands/NORML.htm (4135 words)

	L'Encyclopédie de L'Agora: Sur Fontenelle
		Des articles de fond sur la crise universelle de l'école, sur le mythe de l'égalité par l'école, sur la formation des maîtres, sur le constructivisme et la réforme des programmes.
		Fontenelle n’a probablement rien compris à la portée du principe de Descartes qu’il se borne à énoncer en termes tellement clairs que les plus naïfs encyclopédistes, les La Mettrie, par exemple, le comprirent aussitôt et en tirèrent des extravagances, dont Descartes leur avait d’ailleurs donné la formule avec son animal-machine.
		Le petit paragraphe de Fontenelle, loin d’être « étonnant pour l’époque », n’est, au contraire, que l’écho d’une des grandes préoccupations de l’époque.
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	[FONTENELLE, Bernard le Bovier de.], The Life of Sir Issac Newton with an Account of his Writings. Without the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		[FONTENELLE, Bernard le Bovier de.], The Life of Sir Issac Newton with an Account of his Writings.
		Scarce first edition of the English text alone of this influential Life of Newton by the Jesuit mathematician Fontenelle.
		His Eloge de M. Neuton had appeared at Paris in 1727, with materials supplied by John Conduitt, and was reprinted several times.
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	OEUVRES DIVERSES. Nouvelle Edition, augmentée & enrichie de Figures gravées par Bernard Picart. - FONTENELLE, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		FONTENELLE, [BERNARD LE BOVIER, SIEUR DE] OEUVRES DIVERSES.
		Cohen-De Ricci 408 notes that large-paper copies are in folio with the text enclosed within a typographic border; regular copies were in quarto.
		Fontenelle (1657-1757) was a nephew of Corneille and a leader in the attack by scientists on the credulity of the public in relation to religion and the supernatural.
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