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Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet (1736–1794)
Linguet, Simon Nicolas Henri (la
-gā’). A French writer of history; born at Rheims, July 14, 1736; died on June 27, 1794. He won great fame by his ‘History of the Age of Alexander’ (1762), and his ‘Judiciary Memoirs’ (7 vols.). Of his numerous works on laws, politics, science, etc., these may be mentioned: ‘History of the Revolutions of the Roman Empire’ (2 vols.); ‘Theory of the Civil Law’ (1767); ‘Impartial History of the Jesuits’ (1768); ‘Memoirs on the Bastille’ (1783).