Jean-Marie-Louis Coupé

Jean-Marie-Louis Coupé (18 October 1732, Péronne (Somme) – 10 May 1818, Paris) was a French abbé, man of letters and librarian.

Biography

He studied in Paris and was ordained a priest and taught rhetorics at the College of Navarre. He then became tutor to the Prince of Vaudemont, son of the Countess de Brionne, with whom he traveled to Germany, Italy and Switzerland. He published several moral and literary works, including the periodical collections of mélanges and literary varieties. He was appointed a royal censor in 1778 and custodian of the titles and genealogies department of the Bibliothèque du roi in 1785. After the fall of Robespierre in 1792, he retired in Fontainebleau and managed to earn a living by making translations of Greek and Latin authors for booksellers. He became honorary censor after the Bourbon Restauration.

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