Pierre-Antoine Guéroult
Pierre-Remy-Antoine-Guillaume Guéroult, called "Guéroult jeune", (16 January 1749, Rouen – 14 Décember 1816) was an 18th–19th-century French scholar.
Works
- 1790: Origine de la république une et indivisible, drama which he offered in homage to the National Constituent Assembly.
- 1802: Dictionnaire de la France monarchique, ou la France telle qu’elle était en janvier 1789 ; in-8° ;
- 1783–1789: t.VIII de la traduction des œuvres de Cicero (with his brother Guéroult aîné). This translation was directed by Jean-Marie-Bernard Clément and Jean-Nicolas Démeunier, 8 vol. in-12, ou 3 vol. 4°. The volume by the Guéroult brothers includes the Harangue sur les réponses des aruspices, that pour Sextus, the Plaidoyers pour Plancius et pour Celius, and the Invective contre Vatinius ;
- 1794: Constitution des Spartiates, des Athéniens et des Romains, in-8°. He left manuscripts of the transaltion of several Discours by Cicero and one opera, Étéocle et Polynice, non presented.
The year he died he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by King Louis XVIII of France.
Sources
- Théodore-Éloi Lebreton, Biographie normande, t. 2, Rouen, Le Brument, 1858, p. 185-6.
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Categories:
- 18th-century French writers
- 18th-century French male writers
- 18th-century French dramatists and playwrights
- 18th-century French journalists
- French scholars
- French translators
- Translators to French
- Latin–French translators
- French opera librettists
- French police officers
- Writers from Normandy
- Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
- People from Rouen
- 1749 births
- 1816 deaths
- 18th-century translators