Simon, Edouard-Toma

Edouard-Thomas Simon ( fr. Edouard-Thomas Simon ; October 16, 1740, Troyes - April 4, 1818, Besancon ) - French doctor and librarian, writer and translator. Father of General Edouard Francois Simon .

For twenty years he was engaged in medicine in Troyes, in 1786 he moved to Paris , where he was initially engaged in both medical practice and writing of literary works. He published a collection of translations, an anthology of "Selected Erotic Poems" ( French Choix de poésies érotiques ; 1786), which, among others, included the poems of the Venetian Andrea Navajero (1483-1529). After the start of the French Revolution (1789), he was appointed a member of the metropolitan Council for Hygiene and State Benefits.

When adopting the Constitution of III year, he implemented the plan to create a unified public library for both legislative councils, became its curator and headed the Tribunat library in the same position during the Consulate .

After the fall of Tribunat (1807) he worked in the field of public education, became a professor of fine literature at the Besancon Lyceum and worked there until the end of his life, without stopping to engage in literature. Even during his life in Troyes, he collaborated in the years 1782-1786 in the Journal de Troyes and in 1776-1787 in the Almanach de la Ville et du Diocèse de Troyes. His main works are: “The Republican's Look at“ Pictures of Europe ”” ( French Coup d'oeil d'un républicain sur Les Tableaux de l'Europe ; 1796, response to “Pictures of Europe” by S. A. Kalonna ), the tragedy “Mucius , or Free Rome "( Fr. Mutius ou Rome libre ; 1802), the novel" An Orphan from the Black Forest "( Fr. L'Orphelin de la Forêt Noire ; 1812), the poem" Saint-Louis "(1816). He also performed translations of verses by various authors from Greek, Latin, Italian (a three-volume collection of Martial 's translations of poetry and prose was published posthumously). He wrote some works under pseudonyms: Edward Tom Yomns and MS *** DM ^[2] .