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Gilles Ménage

Also known as: Gilles Ménage; primary name: Ménage, Gilles
Details: individual; academic/intellectual; author/poet; French; Male
Life dates: 1613-1692
Biography: Scholar; advocate in Angers and at the Parliament of Paris (1632), he eventually left the legal profession and, without taking holy orders, joined the church, becoming Prior of Montdidier, and dedicating his life to litterature; c.1648 he settled in a house in the cloister of Notre-Dame-de-Paris, where he organised literary assemblies every wednesday; erudite but pedantic, he was the inspiration behind the character of Vadius in Molière's 'Les Femmes savantes'.

8 related objects

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1854,0628.68 |
Producer name: BIOG39849 Drawn by:Robert Nanteuil |
Production date: 1652

print

Title: Gilles Ménage |
Museum number: 1914,0228.2277 |
Producer name: After:Robert NanteuilPublished by:Jean Jacques Blaise |
Production date: 1782-1822 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1895,1031.39 |
Producer name: BIOG45688 Print made by:Jacobus Schynvoet |
Production date: 1693

print

Title: Aegidius Menagius Guillelmi fil. |
Museum number: 1877,0811.973 |
Producer name: BIOG39849 Print made by:Robert Nanteuil |
Production date: 1652

print

Title: Aegidius Menagius Guillelmi fil. |
Museum number: R,6.237 |
Producer name: BIOG39849 Print made by:Robert Nanteuil |
Production date: 1652

print

Title: The Efigies of Mounseur Scarron |
Museum number: 1914,0228.2424 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1650-1700

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1914,0228.2425 |
Producer name: BIOG24507 Print made by:Pierre Daret |
Production date: 1663-1664

print; letter; album

Title: Lettres de Madame de Sévigné |
Museum number: 1859,0514.306 |
Producer name: Print made by:Isaac BriotPrint made by:Antoine Hérisset |
Production date: 1823