Claude Sallier

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.

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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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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