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François-Henri Salomon de Virelade

1620 – 1670

French lawyer

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Lived 1620 – 1670 (aged 49). François-Henri Salomon de Virelade was a French jurist and lawyer.

François-Henri Salomon de Virelade (4 October 1620, Bordeaux – 2 March 1670, Bordeaux) was a French lawyer, and advocate general of the Grand Conseil. On the basis of his publication Discours d'Etat à M. Grotius, he was elected the third occupant of Académie française seat 29 in 1644, having received more votes than the dramatist Pierre Corneille. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert said of the appointment that "it had prostituted the name of academician".

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Important facts

Born

4 October 1620, Bordeaux

Birth century

17th century

Died

2 March 1670, Bordeaux

Occupation

Jurist, lawyer

Nationality

France

Positions held

Seat 29 of the Académie française

People in François-Henri Salomon de Virelade's life

Named in this biography and alive at the same time

Pierre Corneille

1606 – 1684

Playwright

Contemporaries

People whose lives overlapped François-Henri Salomon de Virelade's

Giovanni Domenico Cassini

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François-Henri Salomon de Virelade died on 2 March 1670 in Bordeaux.

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François-Henri Salomon de Virelade was a jurist and lawyer.

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: François-Henri Salomon de Virelade

· Wikidata: Q3083383

· DBpedia: François-Henri Salomon de Virelade

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