Nicolas La Grange
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Nicolas La Grange was a French playwright and translator, notable for his 1768 translation of Lucretius
' De Rerum Natura and for several plays.
La Grange served as private tutor to the children of the French Enlightenment philosopher Baron d'Holbach
and collaborated with Jacques-André Naigeon
in translating the works of Seneca
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Lucretius
Titus Lucretius Carus was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is an epic philosophical poem laying out the beliefs of Epicureanism, De rerum natura, translated into English as On the Nature of Things or "On the Nature of the Universe".Virtually no details have come down concerning...
' De Rerum Natura and for several plays.
La Grange served as private tutor to the children of the French Enlightenment philosopher Baron d'Holbach
Baron d'Holbach
Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach was a French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist and a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. He was born Paul Heinrich Dietrich in Edesheim, near Landau in the Rhenish Palatinate, but lived and worked mainly in Paris, where he kept a salon...
and collaborated with Jacques-André Naigeon
Jacques-André Naigeon
Jacques-André Naigeon was a French artist, atheist philosopher, editor and man of letters best known for his contributions to the Encyclopédie and for reworking Baron d'Holbach's and Diderot's manuscripts....
in translating the works of Seneca
Seneca the Younger
Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero...
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External links
- Œuvres de Theatre de M. de La Grange at Google Books
- Adriene; ou, Les aventures de la marquise de *** at the Internet Archive