Claude Sallier

Claude Sallier (4 April 1685, Saulieu - 6 September 1761, 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.

Life and œuvre

Sallier and Europe

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.

Notes and references

External links

• Académie française

Preceded by Simon de la Loubère

Seat 16 of the Académie française 1729-1761

Succeeded by Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet

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Name	Sallier, Claude
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Date of birth	4 April 1685
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Date of death	6 September 1761
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