Adrien Quiret de Margency
{{Short description|French officer of the Maison militaire du roi de France, writer and Encyclopédiste}}
Adrien Quiret de Margency also Adrien Cuyret de Margency (1727 – c. 1802) was an 18th-century French officer of the Maison militaire du roi de France (Gentilhomme ordinaire de la chambre du roi), writer and Encyclopédiste.[http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rde_0769-0886_1990_num_8_1_1057 Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs des 17 volumes de « discours » de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année (1990), Volume 8, n°8, (p. 102)]
Biography
Quiret de Margency was the son of Adrien Cuyret (d. 1744)[http://gw4.geneanet.org/clausee?lang=en;pz=emmanuel;nz=clause;ocz=0;p=adrien;n=cuyret Genealogie der Familie] and Marie Madeleine d'Hocquinquant (d. 1761), married since 4 May 1718.[http://www.valmorency.fr/43.html HISTOIRE GÉNÉRALE DE MARGENCY, online] In 1731, the father acquired in the town of Margency a manor and bailiwick of the previous owners for 57,000 livres. Margency is a commune of Val-d'Oise and possibly Adrien Quiret de Margency's birthplace
He often frequented the salons of Paris inspired by the philosophie des Lumières, where he could meet Baron d'Holbach, also called the Coterie holbachique or that of Louise d'Épinay.. He had a friendly relation with Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
De Margency wrote some articles for the sixth and seventh volumes of the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot: Faveurs, Fidélité, Fleurette and Galanterie.
In 1761, de Margency was subject to a creative crisis similar to that of an experienced colleague, Joseph-François-Édouard de Corsembleu. He proposed marriage to his mistress Marie Madeleine de Brémond d'Ars, marquise de Verdelin (1728-1810), who was a widower since 1763.[http://valmorency.fr/130.html « Madame de Verdelin, l’aimable voisine de Jean-Jacques Rousseau à Margency et Soisy-sous-Montmorency », Séance théâtrale du 7 février 2012 à Soisy-sous-Montmorency, online]
Selected works
- La fidélité en amour n'est pas la constance, c'est une vertu plus délicate, plus scrupuleuse et plus rare. Citation d'Adrien Quiret de Margency; Mémoires 1759.
- Aimer d'un amour sincère pour demeurer fidèle. Citation d'Adrien Quiret de Margency; Mémoires 1759
Bibliography
- Alexandre Nicolon; Claude Collineau; Bernard Deü: Histoire de Margency : 650 ans d'histoire locale, 200 ans d'histoire communale. Saint-Ouen-l'aumône, Valhermeil, 2003. {{ISBN|978-2-913328-46-4}}
- Frank Arthur Kafker: The encyclopedists as individuals: a biographical dictionary of the authors of the Encyclopédie. Oxford, Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth Century, 1988, {{ISBN|978-0-7294-0368-9}}, S. 246-7
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External links
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Category:18th-century French writers
Category:18th-century French male writers