BRUMOY, PIERRE. – French Jesuit scholar, historian, philologist, and man of letters, born in Rouen on 26 August 1688, died in Paris on 16 April 1742.
Tutor to the prince of Talmont and contributor to the Mémoires de Trévoux, he attracted attention through the publication of the Pensées sur la décadence de la poésie latine (1722). He himself wrote poems in Latin, two of which are of some importance (Passion and Verrerie). He wrote volumes XI and XII of the Histoire de l'Église gallicane and the Révolution d'Espagne. His principal work is Le théâtre des Grecs (1730), through which he contributed greatly to knowledge of Greek theatre; however, he translated only seven dramas, while analyzing and summarizing others.
His works were published in 1741.
Maria Teresa Sposato