BEAUZÉE, NICOLAS. - French grammarian and apologist, b. at Verdun on 9 May 1717, d. at Paris on 25 Jan. 1789. Beauzée's fame is linked to his studies in grammar and linguistics. In fact, after the death of Dumarsais, he was commissioned to write the grammar articles for the Encyclopédie, which he later collected and published in 3 vols. together with Marmontel's articles on literature.

He also wrote a Grammaire générale, ou Exposition raisonnée des éléments nécessaires du langage pour servir de fondement à l'étude de toutes les langues (Paris 1767).

Beauzée should be remembered especially for his apologetic work: Exposition abrégée des preuves historiques de la religion pour servir d'apologie contre les sophismes de l'irrégion (Paris 1747), which he composed at the age of 29 and which Migne included in his Démonstrations évangéliques.

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BIBL.: J. M. Quérard, La France littéraire, I, Paris 1827, p. 248; R. Samuel, s. v. in La Grande Encyc., V, p. 1084; C. Toussaint, s. v. in DThC, II, col. 521.

Francesco Carpino

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