Camille le Tellier de Louvois
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– 5 November 1718) was a French clergyman and member of several royal academies in the reign of Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV of France
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. He was the fourth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française
Académie française
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in 1706.
He was the fourth son of François Michel Le Tellier de Louvois. He received a doctorate from the Sorbonne
Sorbonne
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at the age of 25. He served as curator of the cabinet des médailles, that is of coins and medals, at the royal library
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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at the Louvre
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. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences
French Academy of Sciences
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, of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
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and, from 1706, of the Académie française
Académie française
L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
where he replaced Jean Testu de Mauroy
Jean Testu de Mauroy
Jean Testu de Mauroy was a French clergyman and academic. He was the member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1688.- References :...
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