Jacques Esprit [SEP] place of death
Jacques Esprit
Jacques Esprit (22 October 1611, Béziers – 11 June 1677), sometimes called abbé Esprit despite never having been ordained a priest, was a French moralist and writer.
Biography.
Born at Béziers, the son of a doctor from Toulouse, he joined his brother (an Oratorian priest) in Paris, where Jacques studied theology and letters from 1628 to 1634. He attended the salon of the marquise de Sablé and entered the service of the duchesse de Longueville then of the duc de La Rochefoucauld
du Saint-Esprit in 1724.
Family.
His father, Jean-Charles de Saint-Nectaire (1608-1696), styled "comte de Brinon" (who was the third son of Jacques de Saint-Nectaire, baron de ), married in 1654 Marguérite (died 1701), sole heiress of Timoléon , baron de Contenant; of their five children, two survived childhood: Henri, who inherited his father's ancestral titles and his sister Madeleine, who married .
Upon his death in 1746