Claude Brossette
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Claude Brossette, seigneur de Varennes d'Appetour (November 7, 1671, Theizé, Lyonnais - 1743) was a French lawyer and writer. He was educated at the Collège de la Trinité in Lyon and joined the Jesuits before turning to law.
He founded in 1700 the Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Lyon, where he was bibliothecarian until 1743 and in 1724 became secretary.
Brossette was a man of far-reaching connection, exchanging letters with Bouhier, president of the Académy, abbot Olivet and Father Vanière from Toulouse. In Paris, he was a friend of Boileau, who's works he edited with his commentaries. and acquainted with François de Lamoignon and Bernard de La Monnoye from the Académie Française, and with Jean-Baptiste Rousseau. Later his reach widened; he conversed with Voltaire, Louis Racine, abbot Lenglet-Dufresnoy, Déon, and Father Brumoy.
[edit] Works
- Histoire Abrégée ou éloge historique de la ville de Lyon, 1711
- Editions of Boileau, Molière
