See also:

• NICOLAS
• NICOLAS, SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS (1799–1848)

NICOLAS See also:

• NICOLAS FRERET (1688-1749)

FRERET (1688-1749)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the 15th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1688 . His See also:

• FATHER

father was procureur to the See also:

• PARLEMENT (see PARLIAMENT)

parlement of Paris, and destined him to the profession of the See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law . His first tutors were the historian See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles See also:

• ROLLIN, CHARLES (1661-1741)

Rollin and Father Desmolets (1677-1760) . Amongst his See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early studies See also:

• HISTORY

history, See also:

• CHRONOLOGY (Gr. xpovo?oyfa, computation of time, xp6vos)

chronology and See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology held a prominent See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place . To please his father he studied law and began to practise at the See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar; but the force of his See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius soon carried him into his own path . At nineteen he was admitted to a society of learned men before whom he read See also:

• MEMOIRS

memoirs on the See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion of the Greeks, on the See also:

• WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship of Bacchus, of See also:

• CERES

Ceres, of See also:

• CYBELE, or CYBEBE (Gr. Ku/3X, Ku,(3i7sn)

Cybele and of See also:

• APOLLO (Gr. 'A2r6XXwv,'Airkkhwv)

Apollo . He was hardly twenty-six years of See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age when he was admitted as See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil to the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

Inscriptions . One of the first memoirs which he read was a learned and See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical discourse, Sur l'origine See also:

• DES

des Francs (1714) . He maintained that the See also:

• FRANKS
• FRANKS, SIR AUGUSTUS WOLLASTON (1826-1897)

Franks were a See also:

• LEAGUE

league of See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German tribes and not, according to the See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend then almost universally received, a nation of See also:

• FREE

free men deriving from See also:

• GREECE

Greece or See also:

• TROY
• TROY, JEAN FRANCOIS DE (1679–1752)

Troy, who had kept their See also:

• CIVILIZATION

civilization intact in the See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

heart of a barbarous See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country . These sensible views excited See also:

• GREAT

great indignation in the See also:

• ABBE (Serbo-Croatian Rai))

Abbe Vertot, who denounced See also:

• FRERET, NICOLAS (1688-1749)

Freret to the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government as a libeller of the See also:

• MONARCHY (Fr. monarchic, from Lat. monarchia, Gr. uovapXia, rule of one, µbvos, alone, apXi7, rule)

monarchy . A lettre de cachet was issued, and Freret was sent to the See also:

• BASTILLE (from Fr. bastir, now bdtir, to build)

Bastille . During his three months of confinement he devoted himself to the study of the See also:

• WORKS

works of See also:

• XENOPHON

Xenophon, the See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit of which appeared later in his memoir on the Gyropaedia .

From the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of his liberation in See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1715 his See also:

• LIFE

life was uneventful . In See also:

• JANUARY

January 1716 he was received See also:

• ASSOCIATE (Lat. associates, from ad, to, and sociare to join)

associate of the Academy of Inscriptions, and in See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1742 he was made perpetual secretary . Heworked without intermission for the interests of the Academy, not even claiming any See also:

• PROPERTY

property in his own writings, which were printed in the Recueil de l'academie des inscriptions . The See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of his memoirs, many of them See also:

• POSTHUMOUS

posthumous, occupies four columns of the Nouvelle Biographie generale . They treat of history, chronology, See also:

• GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil, earth, and ypiickty, to write)

geography, mythology and religion . Throughout he appears as the keen, learned and See also:

• ORIGINAL

original critic; examining into the See also:

• COMPARATIVE

comparative value of documents, distinguishing between the mythical and the See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical, and separating traditions with an historical See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element from pure fables and legends . He rejected the extreme pretensions of the chronology of See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt and See also:

• CHINA

China, and at the same time controverted the See also:

• SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme of See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)

Isaac See also:

• NEWTON
• NEWTON, ALFRED (1829–1907)
• NEWTON, JOHN (1725-1807)
• NEWTON, JOHN (1823-1895)
• NEWTON, SIR CHARLES THOMAS (1816-1894)
• NEWTON, SIR ISAAC (1642-1727)

Newton as too limited . He investigated the mythology not only of the Greeks, but of the Celts, the Germans, the See also:

• CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese and the See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians . He was a vigorous opponent of the theory that the stories of mythology may be referred to historic originals . He also suggested that See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek mythology owed much to the Phoenicians and Egyptians . He was one of the first scholars of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe to undertake the study of the Chinese See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language; and in this he was engaged at the time of his committal to the Bastille . He died in Paris on the 8th of March 1749 .

See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

Long after his See also:

• DEATH

death several works of an atheistic See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character were falsely attributed to him, and were long believed to be his . The most famous of these See also:

• SPURIOUS

spurious works are the Examen critique des apologistes de la religion chretienne (1766), and the Lettrede Thrasybule a Leuci ppe, printed in See also:

• LONDON

London about 1768 . A very defective and inaccurate edition of Freret's works was published in 1796-1799 . A new and See also:

• COMPLETE

complete edition was projected by See also:

• CHAMPOLLION, JEAN FRANCOIS (1790–1832)

Champollion-See also:

• FIGEAC

Figeac, but of this only the first See also:

• VOLUME

volume appeared (1825) . It contains a life of Freret . His See also:

• MANUSCRIPTS

manuscripts, after passing through many hands, were deposited in the library of the See also:

• INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute . The best See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his works is " Examen critique des ouvrages composes See also:

• PAR (Lat. par, equal)

par Freret " in C . A . Walckenaer's Recueil des notices, &c . (1841-185o) . See also See also:

• QUERARD, JOSEPH MARIE (1797-1865)

Querard's See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France litteraire .