Claude Sallier

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Claude Sallier (4 April 1685, Saulieu - 6 September 1761, Paris) was a French ecclesiastic and philologist, as well as professor of Hebrew at the Collège royal and garde des manuscrits of the Bibliothèque du Roi.

Biography

Sallier and Europe

France's first public library

Claude Sallier had an idea that was advanced for its era - to make culture accessible to all. From 1737 to 1750 he made books available to the town of Saulieu, forming France's first public library.

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Académie française

Académie française Seat 16

Jean Sirmond (1634)
Jean de Montereul (1649)
François Tallemant l'Aîné (1651)
Simon de la Loubère (1693)
Claude Sallier (1729)
Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet (1761)
Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1784)
Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1803)
Armand Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu (1816)
Bon-Joseph Dacier (1822)
Pierre François Tissot (1833)
Félix Dupanloup (1854)
Gaston Audiffret-Pasquier (1878)
Alexandre Ribot (1906)
Henri-Robert (1923)
Charles Maurras (1938)
Antoine de Lévis-Mirepoix (1953)
Léopold Sédar Senghor (1983)
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (2003)

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Persondata
Name	Sallier, Claude
Alternative names
Short description	French librarian
Date of birth	4 April 1685
Place of birth
Date of death	6 September 1761
Place of death

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