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Nicolas de Malézieu
Nicolas de Malézieu (or Malézieux) (7 September 1650 (Paris) - 4 March 1727 (Paris)) was a French intellectual, Greek scholar and mathematician.
Life and career.
Nicolas de Malézieu was a squire and lord of Chatenay. He later became chancellor of Dombes and secretary-general to the Swiss and Grisons of France. He was the tutor of Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine (to whom he introduced Bossuet) and he declamed the plays of Euripides and Sophocles to the
volume work, a "Histoire des fermes du roi" ("History of Royal Farms") survives only a manuscript version dating from 1746.
Pierre-Édouard Lémontey said of Malézieu "Knowing a bit about everything, he gathered in his servile person all the advantages of universal mediocrity."
Family.
Malézieu was the son of Nicolas de Malézieu (1612-1652) and Marie des Forges (d.1680). His brother Michel Louis de Malézieu married Marie Jérônime Mac Carthy (d.1714)
In 1672 Malézieu