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Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant
Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant, known as le Père Bougeant (4 November 1690, Quimper, Brittany – 17 January 1743, Paris) was a French Jesuit and historian.
Bougeant entered the Society of Jesus in 1706, taught classics in the College of Caen and Nevers and lived for a number of years in Paris until his death. His "Amusement philosophique sur le language des bêtes" (Philosophical Amusements on the Language of the Animals), published in 1737, attracted the censure of his superiors
of Ansbach, Queen Consort of Great Britain and a significant patron of the arts, dies.
- Poet Richard Jago becomes curate of Snitterfield.
New books.
New books Prose.
- Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant – "Amusement philosophique sur le language des bêtes (Philosophical Amusements on the Language of the Animals)"
- Philip Doddridge – "Submission to Divine Providence in the Death of Children"
- Stephen Duck – "The Vision"
- Jonathan Edwards – "A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Works