biography
| name: |
Courier, Paul-Louis
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pronunciation:
[kooreeay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1772–1825)
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| biography:
| Classical scholar and pamphleteer, born in Paris, France. After a career in the army (1792–1809), during which he published Greek and Latin translations, he retired to his country estate in France, where he published a series of anti-monarchist and anti-clerical pamphlets, for which he was imprisoned in 1821. He died at Véretz, murdered by his servant who had had an affair with Courier's young wife. |
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