François Joseph Bérardier de Bataut

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François-Joseph Bérardier de Bataut (Paris 1720 – Paris 1794) was a French teacher, writer and translator living in the Age of Enlightenment.

Biography

François-Joseph Bérardier de Bataut is born in Paris in 1720. Having studied theology, he became professor of rhetoric at the Collège du Plessis a part of the University of Paris. He is the author, notably, of a Précis de l'histoire universelle (Treaty of Universal History) which was very much appreciated by his contemporaries, and of the Essai sur le récit (Essay on Narrative), a fictional dialogue on how to tell good stories, as well as the translator of Melchior de Polignac's L'Anti-Lucrèce.

Works

Précis de l'histoire universelle, Paris : Hérissant fils, 1766, in-8°, XII-383 p. (A second edition is published by C.-P. Berton in 1776, and a third one, "revue, corrigée et augmentée" by Charles-Constant Letellier in 1823.)

Essai sur le récit, ou Entretiens sur la manière de raconter, par M. l'abbé Bérardier de Bataut, Paris : C.-P. Berton, 1776, in-12°, X-725 p. (There is a commented electronic edition by Christof Schöch, www.berardier.org, 2010.)

L'Anti-Lucrèce en vers françois, translated by François-Joseph Bérardier de Bataut, Paris : C.-P. Berton, 1786. (The original version was written in Latin by Melchior de Polignac (1661–1744) and was first published posthumuously in 1747 ; it was a great success and was frequently translated into French during the 18th century.)

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