Claude-François Fraguier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Claude-François Fraguier

churchman

Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1660

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

Date of Death: 03-May-1728

Profession: poet, translator, theologian, classical scholar

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Claude François Fraguier (27 August 1660, Paris – 3 May 1728, Paris) was a French churchman and writer. Fraguier became a Jesuit at a young age, but he left the order in 1694 to devote himself to literature.
A classicist and author of dissertations on classical history, he was professor of theology at Caen and collaborated on the Journal des savants.
He was a friend of Huet, Segrais, Mme de Lafayette and Ninon de Lenclos. He was elected to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1705 and to the Académie française in 1717. Voltaire said of him in his Siècle de Louis XIV "he was a good littérateur and full of taste.
He put Plato's philosophy into good Latin verse.
He would have done better to have written good French verse."