Claude Sallier
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Claude Sallier | |
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Born | 4 April 1685 Saulieu, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France |
Died | 6 September 1761 (aged 76) Paris, France |
Occupation | ecclesiastic, philologist |
Claude Sallier (4 April 1685, in Saulieu – 6 September 1761, in 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.
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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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- 1685 births
- 1761 deaths
- People from Saulieu
- French philologists
- French librarians
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Translators from Hebrew
- 18th-century translators