Tiphaigne de la Roche,
Charles-François, (
MontebourgMontebourg is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France....
, Cotentin, February 19, 1722 – August 11, 1774) was a French author.
He studied medicine at
CaenCaen is a commune in north-western France. It is the prefecture of the Calvados department and the capital of the Basse-Normandie region...
university and became
DoctorA physician — also known as medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, medical doctor, or simply doctor — practices the ancient profession of medicine, which is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease or injury...
in 1744.
His romances, mainly written anonymously, take place in the wake of two of the great 18th century's philosophical movements that are
RationalismIn epistemology and in its modern sense, rationalism is "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification" . In more technical terms it is a method or a theory "in which the criterion of the truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive"...
and
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and often mix scientific considerations with cabalistic, magical and
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ones.
He anticipated many social and scientific inventions, e.g.
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Tiphaigne de la Roche,
Charles-François, (
MontebourgMontebourg is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France....
, Cotentin, February 19, 1722 – August 11, 1774) was a French author.
He studied medicine at
CaenCaen is a commune in north-western France. It is the prefecture of the Calvados department and the capital of the Basse-Normandie region...
university and became
DoctorA physician — also known as medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, medical doctor, or simply doctor — practices the ancient profession of medicine, which is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease or injury...
in 1744.
His romances, mainly written anonymously, take place in the wake of two of the great 18th century's philosophical movements that are
RationalismIn epistemology and in its modern sense, rationalism is "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification" . In more technical terms it is a method or a theory "in which the criterion of the truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive"...
and
IlluminismIlluminism is a belief system whereby a believer makes a claim that he has been illuminated or experienced enlightenment of a spiritual nature.It is an archaic term deriving from the French illuminer...
and often mix scientific considerations with cabalistic, magical and
alchemicalAlchemy is both a philosophy and a practice with an aim of achieving ultimate wisdom as well as immortality, involving the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of several substances described as possessing unusual properties...
ones.
He anticipated many social and scientific inventions, e.g. photography, synthetic food, and television.
Online texts
- Gallica, online documents from the French BnF, proposing for free the quasi-full set of French publications of Tiphaigne de la Roche in PDF
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format.
- L'Amour dévoilé, ou le système des simpathistes, 1749.
- Amilec, ou la graine d'hommes qui sert à peupler les planètes, 3rd Ed., 1754.
- Bigarrures Philosophiques, 1759.(Part 1-Part 2)
- Giphantie, 1760. (Part 1-Part 2)
- L'Empire des Zaziris sur les humains ou la Zazirocratie, 1761.
- Histoire naturelle, civile et politique des Galligènes ou Mémoires de Duncan, 1765. (Part 1-Part 2)
- Sanfrein ou mon dernier séjour à la campagne, 1765.