Jean-Baptiste Boisot
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Bust by Jean Petit (sculptor)
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| Born | July 1638 |
| Died | 4 December 1694 (aged 56) |
| Nationality | France |
| Occupation | Abbot |
| Family | Boisot |
Jean-Baptiste Boisot (July 1638, Besançon - 4 December 1694), more commonly known as the French abbot, bibliophile, and scholar notable for leaving his collection of manuscripts (including the papers of cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle) to the Benedictine monks of Saint-Vincent. He is also known for leaving his library to his birthplace of Besançon and for his correspondence with Madeleine de Scudéry.
Jean-Baptiste Boisot is the third son of Claude Boisot, governor of the imperial city of Besançon from 1652 to 1658 and merchant-banker, father of twelve children. Very quickly, at the end of the century, the family was Boisot Anomie, then protected by the minister of Louis XIV of France, François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois. The Boisot family became very present in the body of the senior church dignitaries.
Little is known about the youth of Jean-Baptiste Boisot, except that he was an excellent student, curious, interested, and that he got excellent results in his studies.
Very early, Jean Baptiste Boisot was interested in philosophy, as well the latin, which he completed with success in his hometown at the age of thirteen years. He continued his studies at the University of Dole in the civil law and the canon law and received his law degree at the age of sixteen. His father then decides to send him to University of Paris, where he spent two years at the university. This was an opportunity for him to improve his knowledge of the Latin and Greek languages, with the goal of reading to the Fathers of the Church. He also wanted to see the manuscripts translated directly from the original source and make available this work.
In his first years at the Sorbonne, Jean Baptiste Boisot binds a lasting friendship with many emblematic figures of the time. For example Paul Pellisson historiographer of Louis XIV and State counselor, as well as Madeleine de Scudery, who was part of a movement in the late Renaissance in England and France where women used classical rhetorical theory for their own.
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