Jean Lévesque de Burigny [SEP] place of death
Jean Lévesque de Burigny
Jean Lévesque de Burigny (1692 in Reims, France – 1785 in Paris) was a historian, who in 1713, with his brothers, Champeaux and Lévesque de Pouilly, he began to compile a dictionary of universal knowledge, similar to an encyclopedia, which comprised twelve large manuscript folios, and afforded Burigny ample material for his subsequent works. In 1718, at The Hague, he worked with Saint-Hyacinthe on "L'Europe savante", in twelve volumes, of which he contributed at least one
marshal of France and a soldier in Napoleon's army
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