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See also:PAUL See also:HENRI See also:MALLET (173o–18o7) , Swiss writer, was See also:born of an old Huguenot See also:family, was born near See also:Geneva in 1749, the on the loth of See also:August 1730, in Geneva . After having been son of a See also:Protestant See also:minister . He was educated at Geneva, and educated there, he became See also:tutor in the family of the See also:count of through the See also:influence of See also:Voltaire obtained a professorship at See also:Calenberg in See also:Saxony . In 1752 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:Cassel . He soon, however, resigned this See also:post, and going to belles lettres to the See also:academy at See also:Copenhagen . He was naturally See also:London joined H . S . N . See also:Linguet in the See also:production of his Annales attracted to the study of the See also:ancient literature and See also:history of his politiques (1778–1780) . During Linguet's imprisonment in the adopted See also:country, and in 1755 he published the first fruits of his See also:Bastille See also:Mallet du See also:Pan continued the Annales by himself (178r–researches, under the See also:title Introduction a l'histoire du Dane- 1783); but Linguet resented this on his See also:release, and Mallet du marck oit l'on traite de la See also:religion, See also:des mceurs, des lois, et des usages Pan changed the title of his own publication to Memoires histodes anciens Danois . A second See also:part, more particularly See also:relating riques (1783) . From 1783 he incoporated this See also:work with the to the ancient literature of the country, Monuments de la mytho- Mercure de See also:France in See also:Paris, the See also:political direction of which had See also:logic et de la poesie des See also:Celtes, et particulierement des anciens been placed in his hands .
On the outbreak of the See also:French Scandinaves, was issued in 1756, and was also translated into Revolution he sided with the Royalists, and was sent on a See also:mission Danish
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A See also:translation into See also:English, with notes and See also:preface, by I (1791–1742) by See also: See Mallet du Pan and the French Revolution (1902), by See also:Bernard Mallet, son of Sir Louis Mallet, author also of a See also:biography of his See also:father (1900) . |
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