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18th-century French Jesuits

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The list 18th-century French Jesuits includes Marc-Antoine Laugier, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche, Claude de Visdelou and Francois Xavier d'Entrecolles. The list consists of 122 members.

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  • 1.

    Sébastien Rale

    French Jesuit missionary
    Sébastien Rale
    Overview: Sébastien Rale (also Racle, Râle, Rasle, Rasles, and Sebastian Rale (January 20, 1657 – August 23, 1724) was a French Jesuit missionary and lexicographer who preached amongst the Abenaki and enc ...
    Date of birth: 1657
    Date of death: 1724
    Age: 66 (age at death)
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    Marc-Antoine Laugier

    French architectural historian (1713–1769)
    Marc-Antoine Laugier
    Overview: Marc-Antoine Laugier (Manosque, Provence, January 22, 1713 – Paris, April 5, 1769) was a Jesuit priest until 1755 than a Benedictine monk. He was one of the first architectural theorists.
    Date of birth: 1713
    Date of death: 1769
    Age: 55 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Historian
    Gender: Male
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    Joseph-Ignace Guillotin

    French physician, politician and freemason
    Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
    Overview: Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (28 May 1738 – 26 March 1814) was a French physician, politician and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out death penalties in France, as a less ...
    Date of birth: 28 May 1738
    Date of death: 26 March 1814
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Politician
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    Francois Xavier d'Entrecolles
    Overview: François Xavier d'Entrecolles (1664 in Lyon – 1741 in Beijing; Chinese name: 殷弘绪, Yin Hongxu) was a French Jesuit priest, who learned the Chinese technique of manufacturing porcelain through his inves ...
    Date of birth: 1664
    Date of death: 1741
    Age: 76 (age at death)
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    Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche
    Overview: Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche (23 March 1722 – 1 August 1769) was a French astronomer, best known for his observations of the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769.
    Date of birth: 23 March 1722
    Date of death: 1 August 1769
    Age: 47 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Astronomer
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    Jean Grou

    French philosopher and Jesuit priest
    Overview: Jean Nicolas Grou (23 November 1731 – 13 December 1803) was a French Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, teacher, translator and mystic and spiritual writer. After the suppression of the Jesuit order he sought ...
    Date of birth: 23 November 1731
    Date of death: 13 December 1803
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Claude de Visdelou

    French missionary
    Overview: Claude de Visdelou (12 August 1656 – 11 November 1737) was a French Jesuit missionary.
    Date of birth: 1656
    Date of death: 1737
    Age: 80 (age at death)
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    Joseph-François Lafitau

    French Jesuit missionary, ethnologist, and naturalist (1681–1746)
    Joseph-François Lafitau
    Overview: Joseph-François Lafitau (May 31, 1681 – July 3, 1746) was a French Jesuit missionary, ethnologist, and naturalist who worked in Canada. He is best known for his use of the comparative method in the field ...
    Date of birth: 1681
    Date of death: 1746
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Naturalist
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    Louis Bertrand Castel

    Mathematician, philosopher
    Louis Bertrand Castel
    Overview: Louis Bertrand Castel (5 November 1688 – 11 January 1757) was a French mathematician born in Montpellier, who entered the order of the Jesuits in 1703. Having studied literature, he afterwards devoted ...
    Date of birth: 15 November 1688
    Date of death: 9 January 1757
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Mathematician
    Gender: Male
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    Nicholas Mahudel

    French, Anthropologist
    Overview: Nicolas Mahudel (21 November 1673 – 7 March 1747) was a French antiquary interested in prehistoric research. He proposed the chronological prehistoric sequence Stone Age - Bronze Age - Iron Age. Mahudel ...
    Date of birth: 1673
    Date of death: 1747
    Age: 73 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Anthropologist
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    Augustin Barruel

    French publicist and Jesuit priest
    Augustin Barruel
    Overview: Augustin Barruel (October 2, 1741 – October 5, 1820) was a French publicist and Jesuit priest. He is now mostly known for setting forth the conspiracy theory involving the Bavarian Illuminati and the ...
    Date of birth: 2 October 1741
    Date of death: 5 October 1820
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Theorist
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    Guillaume Thomas François Raynal

    French writer (1713–1796)
    Guillaume Thomas François Raynal
    Overview: Guillaume Thomas Raynal (12 April 1713 – 6 March 1796) was a French writer and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment.
    Date of birth: 12 April 1713
    Date of death: 6 March 1796
    Age: 82 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Male
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    Jean Joseph Marie Amiot

    French Jesuit missionary in China, 1718–1793
    Jean Joseph Marie Amiot
    Overview: Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (sometimes Amyot; Chinese: 錢德明; pinyin: Qián Démíng; February 1718 – October 9, 1793) was a French Jesuit missionary in Qing China, during the reign of the Qianlong ...
    Date of birth: 1 February 1718
    Date of death: 9 October 1793
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Linguist
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    Charles Porée

    French poet
    Charles Porée
    Overview: Charles Porée (4 September 1675 – 11 January 1741) was a French priest, Jesuit, educator, orator, poet and homme de lettres. All his life, Voltaire, who was his pupil, kept a profound reverence for him ...
    Date of birth: 4 September 1675
    Date of death: 11 January 1741
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Playwright
    Gender: Male
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    François de Paule Bretonneau

    French preacher, librettist and new-Latin operas playwright
    Overview: François de Paule Bretonneau (31 October 1660 – 22 May 1741) was a French preacher, librettist and new-Latin operas playwright.
    Date of birth: 31 October 1660
    Date of death: 22 May 1741
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Occupation: Playwright
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    Guillaume-Antoine Delfaud
    Overview: Guillaume-Antoine Delfaud (1733–1792) was a French Jesuit.
    Date of birth: 1733
    Date of death: 1792
    Age: 58 (age at death)
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    Claudius Cayx-Dumas

    French Jesuit
    Overview: Claudius Cayx-Dumas (1724–1792) was a French Jesuit. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1757.
    Date of birth: 1724
    Date of death: 1792
    Age: 67 (age at death)
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    Jacques Friteyre-Durvé

    French Jesuit
    Overview: Jakub Friteyre-Durvé (1725–1792) was a French Jesuit. He was born in Marsac-en-Livradois, a town in Puy-de-Dôme.
    Date of birth: 1725
    Date of death: 1792
    Age: 66 (age at death)
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    Overview: Jean Calmette (5 April 1693, Rodez, France - February 1740, Chikkaballapur, India) was a French Jesuit missionary and an Indologist assigned in South India.
    Date of birth: 5 April 1692
    Date of death: February 1740
    Age: 47 (age at death)
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    Jean-François Féraud

    French Jesuit and grammarian
    Overview: Jean-François Féraud (17 April 1725, Marseille – 8 February 1807, Marseille) was a French Jesuit and grammarian.
    Date of birth: 17 April 1725
    Date of death: 8 February 1807
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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