Jean Terrasson
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Jean Terrasson often referred to as the Abbe Terrasson, was a French priest, author, and most notably a member of the Académie française
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His best-known work is probably the fantasy novel Sethos
, Life of Sethos, Taken from Private Memoirs of the Ancient Egyptians, published in 1731.
Académie française
L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
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His best-known work is probably the fantasy novel Sethos
Sethos
Sethos a pharaoh from Herodotus, Histories :-The Terrasson novel:Sethos became the hero of an improbably influential fantasy novel, Life of Sethos, Taken from Private Memoirs of the Ancient Egyptians, published in 1731 by the French Abbe Jean Terrasson.The book appeared in Paris in 1731 and in an...
, Life of Sethos, Taken from Private Memoirs of the Ancient Egyptians, published in 1731.