Travail du 5 aoust 1745 Méthode pour éclaircir les dates anciennes. On demande à imprimer d'avance en faisant parafer les epreuves à l'examinateur avant que de tirer les bonnes feuilles. [En marge] Bon sous cette condition et que ce sera M. Clairaut de l'Acad[émi]e des sciences (BnF, Ms fr. 22140, f.101).
Auparavant, le 29 avril 1745 : 1937. Ms. Methode pour eclaircir les dattes anciennes, avec une table chronologique […] et un calendrier perpetuel, pourles veriffier […] par un [religieux] benedictin de la congregation de S[ain]t Maur p[résenté] p[ar] l'auteur d[istribué] à M. [Souchay]. Distr[ibué] en second à M. [Foucher] [Rayé : au S[ieu]r l'abbé de la Caille et à M. Clairault] Approuvé. […] (BnF, fr. 21997, f. 106v). Hanley : Selected as censor of Méthode pour éclaircir les dates anciennes avec une table chronologique et un calendrier perpétuel pour les vérifier in special circumstances around 5 August 1745. In an account of the Librairie’s deliberations on that day it is recorded that a request had been received concerning the publication of the book : « On demande à imprimer d’avance en faisant parafer les épreuves à l’examinateur avant que de tirer les bonnes feuilles ». Such an arrangement would mean that the manuscript would not be submitted for inspection before its printing and that the book would be vetted in proofs. The response was positive. Even so, it was specified who would examine the work : « Bon sous cette condition, et que ce sera M. Clairaut de l’Acad[émi]e des sciences ». Around 29 April 1745 the author, an unidentified Benedictine of the Congregation of St. Maur, had solicited an authorisation, and the censor Jean-Baptiste Souchay had been called upon for his assessment. The relevant register of the Librairie reveals that the manuscript was then also entrusted to Nicolas-Louis de La Caille and Clairaut. Those names have been crossed out and replaced by that of Paul Foucher. A member of the Académie des sciences, La Caille was not a censor. In particular situations the authorities sometimes made such ad hoc appointments. The book was approved. Consequently, the libraires Guillaume-Nicolas Desprez and Cavelier received a privilège for fifteen years on 6 November 1747. The work would appear never to have seen the public light of day (Hanley 16).
Abréviation
BnF : Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
Référence
Hanley (William), « Clairaut », A biographical dictionary of French censors 1742-1789, ? vol., Centre international du XVIIIe siècle, 2005-, vol. 2, 2016, pp. 329-352 [3 août 1734 (1)] [Plus].
Courcelle (Olivier), « 5 août 1745 (1) : Clairaut censeur bizarre », Chronologie de la vie de Clairaut (1713-1765) [En ligne], http://www.clairaut.com/n5aout1745po1pf.html [Notice publiée le 1 février 2016].
1937. Ms. Methode pour eclaircir les dattes anciennes, avec une table chronologique […] et un calendrier perpetuel, pourles veriffier […] par un [religieux] benedictin de la congregation de S[ain]t Maur p[résenté] p[ar] l'auteur d[istribué] à M. [Souchay]. Distr[ibué] en second à M. [Foucher] [Rayé : au S[ieu]r l'abbé de la Caille et à M. Clairault] Approuvé. […] (BnF, fr. 21997, f. 106v). Hanley :
Selected as censor of Méthode pour éclaircir les dates anciennes avec une table chronologique et un calendrier perpétuel pour les vérifier in special circumstances around 5 August 1745. In an account of the Librairie’s deliberations on that day it is recorded that a request had been received concerning the publication of the book : « On demande à imprimer d’avance en faisant parafer les épreuves à l’examinateur avant que de tirer les bonnes feuilles ». Such an arrangement would mean that the manuscript would not be submitted for inspection before its printing and that the book would be vetted in proofs. The response was positive. Even so, it was specified who would examine the work : « Bon sous cette condition, et que ce sera M. Clairaut de l’Acad[émi]e des sciences ». Around 29 April 1745 the author, an unidentified Benedictine of the Congregation of St. Maur, had solicited an authorisation, and the censor Jean-Baptiste Souchay had been called upon for his assessment. The relevant register of the Librairie reveals that the manuscript was then also entrusted to Nicolas-Louis de La Caille and Clairaut. Those names have been crossed out and replaced by that of Paul Foucher. A member of the Académie des sciences, La Caille was not a censor. In particular situations the authorities sometimes made such ad hoc appointments. The book was approved. Consequently, the libraires Guillaume-Nicolas Desprez and Cavelier received a privilège for fifteen years on 6 November 1747. The work would appear never to have seen the public light of day (Hanley 16).