François-Henri Salomon de Virelade (4 October 1620, Bordeaux – 2 March 1670, Bordeaux) was a French lawyer, and advocate general of the Grand Conseil. On the basis of his publication Discours d'Etat à M. Grotius, he was elected the third occupant of Académie française seat 29 in 1644, having received more votes than the dramatist Pierre Corneille.[1][2] Jean Le Rond d'Alembert said of the appointment that "it had prostituted the name of academician".[3]
Selected works
edit- Discours d'Etat à M. Grotius. 1640.[3]
References
edit- ↑ "François-Henri Salomon de Virelade". Académie française. Archived from the original on 20 April 2026.
- ↑ Maalouf, Amin (2016). "3 : Celui que l'on a préféré à Corneille" [The one who was preferred over Corneille]. Un fauteuil sur la Seine: quatre siècles d'histoire de France [A seat on the Seine: four centuries of French history]. Paris: Bernard Grasset. ISBN 9782246861676.
- 1 2 Gassier, Émile; Lemaître, Jules (1906). Les cinq cents immortels, histoire de l'Académie française 1634-1906. Paris: Henri Jouve. p. 235.
on a prostitué le nom d'académicien
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