About Dominique Ricard
Lived 1741 – 1803 (aged 61). Dominique Ricard was a French writer, translator, hellenist, teacher and poet.
Abbot Dominique Ricard (24 March 1741, Toulouse – 28 January 1803, Paris) was an 18th-century French translator.
Born in Toulouse, he was teacher of rhetorics at the college of Auxerre, then special tutor to Jérôme-Pélagie Masson de Meslay's son (president of the Chambre des comptes of Paris from 1768 to 1790), called président de Meslay.
We owe him a translation of the Works by Plutarch: the Moralia were published from 1783 to 1795, and the Vies des Hommes illustres from 1798 to 1803.
Dominique Ricard was a member of the Société des observateurs de l'homme.
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Who was Dominique Ricard?
French clergyman and hellenist
When was Dominique Ricard born?
Dominique Ricard was born on 23 March 1741 in Toulouse.
When did Dominique Ricard die?
Dominique Ricard died on 28 January 1803 in Paris.
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Dominique Ricard was a writer, translator, hellenist, teacher and poet.
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Dominique Ricard was French.
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