Children Nicolas Maurice Chompré | ||
Died 18 July 1760, Paris, France | ||
Pierre Chompré (Narcy, Haute-Marne 1698 – Paris, 18 August 1760), was a French schoolmaster, author of educational books and Latin sermons editor.
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He held in Paris a thriving pension and composed several educational books for the use of his pupils. His Dictionnaire abrégé de la Fable, published in 1727, was translated into many languages and reprinted many times until the middle of the nineteenth century. "Here we have a man named Chompré, wrote his contemporary Baron Grimm, which possesses for the instruction of youth a very rare and recognized talent. He saw that the most perfect books we have from antiquity repelled young people by their uselessness, obscurities or things beyond their reach in them. He is responsible for the care to extract all that can attract, entertain or educate young people".
His brother, Étienne Marie Chompré, was also a schoolmaster. His son was Nicolas Maurice Chompré.