Jean Ballesdens

Jean Ballesdens (1595, Paris – 1675, Paris) was a French lawyer, editor and bibliophile, though he has left practically no writings.

Biography

A lawyer to the parlement de Paris and secretary to chancellor Séguier, he was elected to the Académie française in 1648 - though he had renounced a place when it was first offered him, in favour of Pierre Corneille. He collected books and formed a library that was the rival of his master's in terms of numbers, choice and the editions' beauty. Notable books from it were the nine volumes in Grolier bindings.

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Académie française

Académie française Seat 8

Claude de Malleville (1634)
Jean Ballesdens (1648)
Géraud de Cordemoy (1675)
Jean-Louis Bergeret (1684)
Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre (1694)
Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1743)
Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan (1759)
Jean-Sifrein Maury (1784)
Michel-Louis-Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély (1803)
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1816)
Pierre Paul Royer-Collard (1827)
Charles de Rémusat (1846)
Jules Simon (1875)
Adrien Albert Marie de Mun (1897)
Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart (1918)
Octave Aubry (1946)
Édouard Herriot (1946)
Jean Rostand (1959)
Michel Déon (1978)

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