Claude-François-Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia

Benjamin Hoffmann (Ohio State University)

Ed. by Jenny Mander, University of Cambridge
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.04: French Writing and Culture: Eighteenth-Century and the Enlightenment, 1700-1800.
Vol. editors: Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Jenny Mander (University of Cambridge), Síofra Pierse (University College Dublin), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born 9 Aug 1769
Died 9 Oct 1814

Places

Born in France
Active in France; United States

Activities

Primary

Prose writer

Other

Philosopher

Resources

Lezay-Marnésia's Works

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Claude-François-Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia was born in Metz on 24 August 1735 and passed away in Besançon on 9 November 1800. Although he died less than three hundred kilometers from his birthplace and spent most of his existence in Paris and Franche-Comté, the marquis de Lezay-Marnésia also experienced an adventurous life when he traveled to the United States and to the far away shores of the Ohio river, where he hoped to create a colony for French emigrants fleeing the Revolution. Although he is known nowadays by a handful of specialists of Eighteenth-Century France only, his role as a significant figure of the Enlightnement is being reevaluated and new scholarship is produced on his heterogenous production. A polygraph, Lezay-Marnésia’s was a poet whose work was published along…

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Citation: Hoffmann, Benjamin. "Claude-François-Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 December 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13399, accessed 21 November 2024.]