Name Leon Menard | Role Writer | |
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Died October 1, 1767, Paris, France | ||
Leon Menard (12 September 1706 – 1 October 1767) was a French lawyer and historical writer.
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Biography
Menard was born at Tarascon. When he had completed his study of the humanities under the Jesuits at Lyon, he studied jurisprudence at Toulouse and became counsellor at the Superior Court of Nimes.
From 1744 he was constantly in Paris busied with historical research. He was a member of the Academie des Inscriptions, and several other learned bodies.
He died in Paris.
Works
His first work concerned the history of his native city and its bishops, and was entitled "Histoire des eveques de Nimes" (2 vols., The Hague, 1737). Later he enlarged this work, and between 1760 and 1758 he published at Paris the "Histoire civile, ecclesiastique et litteraire de la ville de Nimes" in seven volumes with illustrations. An abridgement appeared at Paris in 1790, and one at Nimes in 3 vols., 1831-33.
He also wrote:
In addition he wrote a number of articles for periodicals, especially on topics from the history of France in Roman times. In 1762 the Magistracy of Avignon sent for him and confided to him the task of writing a history of that city. But after two years of work he was constrained by ill-health to leave it unfinished.