Jacques Barthélemy Salgg ( Fr. Jacques-Barthélemy Salgues ; 1760 , Sanz - July 26, 1830 , Paris ) - French Abbot, philosopher , historian and literary critic .
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He received a theological education, served as abbot and professor of theology at the College of Sans (where he studied, in particular, the famous chemist Louis Jacques Tenard later), but in 1791 he refused the church service and switched to civilian, becoming the prosecutor of the Commune of Sans. He is known for completing the translation of the poem by John Milton “Lost Paradise” into French, and also wrote a number of philosophical, rhetorical and historical works. He was known as a royalist and anticlerical, an opponent of the Jesuit Order and a supporter of the Bourbon Restoration . In 1824-1825, he led the magazine L'Oriflamme , in whose pages he spoke with the demands of the rehabilitation of Joseph Lesurk (guillotined in 1796 due to a miscarriage of justice) and the payment of compensation to his family.
The most famous and repeatedly republished essay Salga "Mistakes common in society" ( fr. Des erreurs répandues dans la société ; 1810, Russian translation titled "About the errors and prejudices that dominate in various classes of society", 1836) - a list of all kinds of prejudices and superstitions with explanations of possible sources and causes. Among his other books are “Paris, customs, literature” ( fr. De Paris, des moeurs, de la littérature ; 1813), “Memoirs for the work on the history of France” ( fr. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de France ; Paris , 1814–1828, 9 volumes in 8 editions; the essay had an anti-Bonapartist character and was printed after the Restoration), “A Thousand and One Type of Defamation” ( fr. Les mille et une calomnies ; 1882); "On the literature of the ancient Jews" ( fr. De la littérature des Hébreux ; 1825) and several pamphlets against the Jesuits [3] , in particular, "The Antidote of Montrouge " ( fr. L'Antidote de Mont-Rouge - one of the headquarters was located in Montrouge - apartment of Jesuits in France; Paris, 1827, 8 issues).
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- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 124525814 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- B BNF ID : Open Data Platform - 2011.
- ↑ Salg, Jacques-Barthelemy // Encyclopedic dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extras). - SPb. , 1890-1907.