Biographical Dictionary: Containing Concise Notices of Eminent Persons of ...
Biographical Dictionary: Containing Concise Notices of Eminent Persons of ...
Cooper, Thompson, 1837-1904, Ed
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j but, being a Protestant, he went to Holland, whence he came to England, and painted many fine pictures, particularly at Montague House, now the British Museum. Died 1694. ROUSSEAU, Jean Baptists, a pof»*^, bora at 1009 ROUSSEAU. Paris 6 April, 1670. His father was a shoemaker^ who gave him a liberal education. In 1688 he became page to the French minister at the court of Denmark, and afterwards secretary to Marshal Tallard, in his embassy to England. In 1701 he was admitted into the Academy o...Mnscriptions ; but in 171a he was banished from France on the charge of writing some satirical couplets, whic^ he declared were forgeries, devised for his ruin. He then went to Switzerland, and afterwards to Vienna, under the patronage of Prince Eugene. In i7ai he published in London an edition of his poems, in a vols. He next lived with the duke of Aremberg, whose favour he lost, and died suddenly at Brussels 17 March, 1741. An edition of his works was printed in 1743, in 3 vob. 4to., and 4 vols.
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