Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville [SEP] native language
Nicolas Jean Hugou de Basseville
Nicolas Jean Hugou de Bassville or Basseville (February 7, 1743January 13, 1793), French journalist and diplomatist, was born at Abbéville.
Biography.
Bassville was trained for the priesthood, taught theology in a provincial seminary and then went to Paris. Here in 1784 he published "Éléments de mythologie" and some poems, which brought him into notice. On the recommendation of the prince of Condé he became tutor to two young Americans travelling in Europe. With them he visited Berlin
1798–1864), founder of the Guerlain perfume empire.
- (1661–1737), physician.
- Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville (1743–1793), hero and martyr sans-culotte.
- François-Jean de la Barre (1745–1766), victim of religious intolerance; a commemorates him.
- (1481–1503), Calvinist schoolboy (regarded as a heretic) executed in the in Paris, for having desecrated the sacramental bread.
- (1909–1995), mayor from 1947 to 1988, MP, Minister,