Claude Clerselier

Claude Clerselier (1614, in Paris – 1684, in Paris) was a French editor and translator.

Tractatus de formatione foetus, 1672

Clerselier was a lawyer in the Parlement of Paris and resident for the King of France in Sweden. He was the brother-in-law of Pierre Chanut, and served as the liaison for Descartes and Queen Christina of Sweden.[1] He was the editor of the first French edition of René Descartes and went on to edit and translate several works by Descartes,[2] especially his letters (Paris, 1657, 1659 et 1667), L'Homme, et un Traité de la formation du fœtus du mesme auteur avec les remarques de Louys de La Forge, 1664, L'Homme...et...Le Monde, 1667 and his Principes, 1681.

Sources

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bouillet, Marie-Nicolas; Chassang, Alexis, eds. (1878). Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French). Missing or empty |title= (help)

  • Delphine Antoine-Mahut, "Claude Clerselier (1614-1684)", in: The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon, Dir. Larry Nolan, Cambridge University Press, 2015.
  • Trevor McClaughlin, "Claude Clerselier's Attestation of Descartes's Religious Orthodoxy" in Journal of Religious History, n° 20, June 1980, pp. 136–46.
  • See also Inventaire après décès de Claude Clerselier, Archives nationales, Minutier Central, Étude XXXIX, liasse 159, 10 January 1685.(via T.McC.)

References
  1. Antoine-Mahut, Delphine (January 2015). "Clerselier, Claude (1614–1684)". The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  2. Hedley, Douglas; Hutton, Sarah (22 December 2007). Platonism at the Origins of Modernity: Studies on Platonism and Early Modern Philosophy. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-1-4020-6407-4.
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