Adrien-Quentin, abbé BUÉE (1748-1826), mathematician, author - Lot 11

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Adrien-Quentin, abbé BUÉE (1748-1826), mathematician, author - Lot 11
Adrien-Quentin, abbé BUÉE (1748-1826), mathematician, author of works on complex numbers. He was a resolute opponent of the French Revolution. Signed autograph manuscript (4 pp. in-8) and autograph letter (draft) a "mon cher frère" (2 pp. in-4). In 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 was forced into exile in England. Manuscript dedicated to his Dictionnaire, developed to 4 points, denouncing Laplace: "n°1. To understand this Dictionary, it is not enough to read it, it must be studied [...]. The public must not be made privy to this Dictionary. To prevent them from knowing it, I would sacrifice the entire edition. I only need readers capable of fulfilling the aforementioned conditions. This mode of publication is the only one suitable for men united by the love of truth, purged of all other interests [...]. N°3. As this new dictionary is dedicated to the friends of Religion, the King and common sense, the author invites the friends and enemies of common sense, Religion and the King to censure it with mathematical rigor. He asks that the objects that may provide grounds for censure be so specified, and so clearly circumscribed, that any reply is impossible. He further requests that this censure be purged of all praise. This request is mainly addressed to Mr. Marquis de Laplace [...]. N°4. Avis. Mr. Marquis de Laplace is the invisible leader of the conspiracy of the sophists of impiety denounced in 1797 by Abbé Barruel, in his mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du Jacobinisme, tome 1er. This conspiracy is on the eve 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 expose the conspiracy, by printing a text that he had spread...
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