Adrien-Quentin, abbé BUÉE (1748-1826), mathematician, author - Lot 529

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Adrien-Quentin, abbé BUÉE (1748-1826), mathematician, author - Lot 529
Adrien-Quentin, abbé BUÉE (1748-1826), mathematician, author of works on complex numbers. He was a determined opponent of the Revolution. Signed autograph manuscript (4 pp. in-8) and autograph letter (draft) a "my dear brother" (2 pp. in-4). As early as 1792, he published a counter-revolutionary work: Nouveau Dictionnaire, pour servir à l'intelligence des termes mis en vogue par la Révolution, dédié aux amis de la religion, du roi et du sens commun, which earned him the wrath of the Jacobins; he had to be exiled to England. Manuscript dedicated to his Dictionary, developed in 4 points, denouncing Laplace: "n°1. To understand this Dictionary, it is not enough to read it, one must study it []. The public must not be put in the confidence of this Dictionary. In order to take away their knowledge of it, I sacrifice the entire edition. I need only readers who are capable of fulfilling the above conditions. This mode of publication is the only one that suits men united by the love of truth, purged of all other interests []. N°3. This new dictionary being dedicated to the friends of Religion, of the King and of common sense, the author invites the friends and the enemies of common sense, of Religion and of the King, to censure it with mathematical rigor. He asks that the objects which can provide matter for censure, are so specified, and circumscribed with such a clearness, that any retort is impossible. He requires moreover that this censure be purged of any kind of praise. This request is mainly addressed to Mr. Marquis de Laplace []. N°4. Notice. Mr. Marquis de Laplace is the invisible leader of the conspiracy of the sophists of impiety denounced in 1797 by the abbot Barruel, in his memoirs to serve the history of Jacobinism, volume 1. This conspiracy is on the verge of success []. It is on this alone that Mr. le Mis de Laplace will have to defend himself [] ". The letter is in the same tone: he explains what he did on his return from England to reveal the conspiracy, by printing a text that he made spread
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