Joseph Omer Joly de Fleury, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph Omer Joly de Fleury

Date of Birth: 26-Oct-1715

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 29-Jan-1810

Profession: magistrate

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Joseph Omer Joly de Fleury (1715-1810) was a member of the distinguished Joly de Fleury family, originally from Burgundy, from which came a number of leading French magistrates and officials under the ancien regime.
He is notable for four principal things: his strong opposition to the philosophes and the publication of the Encyclopedie in 1759; his role in the expulsion of the Jesuits; his involvement in the Lally Tollendal Affair; and his ban on inoculation against smallpox in June 1763.
In a pun on his name, Voltaire described him as ‘ni Homère, ni joli, ni fleuri' ( = neither Homer, nor pretty, nor flowery, a sarcastic comment on his apparently dreary oratory).
In one of his private letters, Voltaire described him as a ‘little black balloon puffed up with stinking vapours’