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    Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (26 September 1723 – 19 December 1807) was a German-born French-language journalist, art critic, diplomat and contributor...
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    Denis Diderot. Completed in about 1780, it was first published by Friedrich Melchior Grimm in 1792 (eight years after Diderot's death) in his Correspondance...
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  • controversy that followed, critics such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Melchior Grimm, along with other writers associated with the Encyclopédie, praised...
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  • de Grimm or Baron von Grimm may refer to: Constantin de Grimm (1845–1896), Russian-born artist and caricaturist Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723–1807)...
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  • football player Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723–1807), German author Hans Melchior (1894–1984), German botanist Hans Bøchmann Melchior (1773–1831)...
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    philologist Friedrich Melchior Grimm.: 677  They were brought together by their common friend at that time, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.: 632  In 1753, Grimm began...
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    1773 he traveled with the German-born French writer and critic Friedrich Melchior Grimm to the court of Frederik the Great in Prussia, where his sister...
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    Vaugirard, Paris, 1911, p. 4 Friedrich Melchior Grimm / Denis Diderot: Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique, par Grimm et Diderot, depuis 1753...
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  • artist Warren Grimm (1888–1919), victim of the Centralia Massacre Wendelin Grimm (1818–1890), American farmer Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723–1807)...
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    reduced it to a "hodge-podge of insipid clippings". According to Friedrich Melchior Grimm, writing in 1777, "The entire extent of the injury done by this...
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    claimed that he was "the greatest singer Italy had ever produced". Friedrich Melchior Grimm summed up his qualities: It would be difficult to give any idea...
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    (extraite des Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences morales). (1797) In: Friedrich Melchior Grimm: Correspondance littéraire. George Streckeisen-Moultou: J. J. Rousseau...
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  • about poetry, published from 1747 to 1793, under the direction of Friedrich Melchior Grimm. In the article, Cambini affirmed only to have played «for six...
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    international renown and the admiration of established writers Friedrich Melchior Grimm and David Hume. At the age of 18, (about 1764), she fell in love...
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  • the city. Johann Jakob Bethmann was a friend of German author Friedrich Melchior Grimm.[citation needed] Bethmann family His descendants held fast to...
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    Voltaire Foundation, 1995, vol 1, p.781 François Tronchin to Friedrich Melchior Grimm, 29 septembre 1778, cited in C. Paillard, 'Jean-Louis Wagnière...
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    woman of fashion, known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who gives unflattering reports...
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  • or collection of current and amusing tales"), 1759 and 1764. Friedrich Melchior Grimm didn't think much of the second collection: "The author claims...
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    and the ruling political powers. The German diplomat and writer Friedrich Melchior Grimm, a long-time participant in the philosophical dinners organized...
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    "Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie", is related to her. Friedrich Melchior von Grimm, Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique, t. 10...
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  • Diderot indicated the end of his revisions in a letter to Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm dated the 23 September 1772. For more details on this triptych...
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    the [French] Academy"—is well-known, among many others. Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm called him a "machine a saillies." He was later (1762) elected...
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    Potemkin replaced him as her lover. She wrote to her friend Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm about Vasilchikov's dismissal: "Why do you reproach me because...
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    provided with basic education at home. Their mentor was Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm. In 1774 they went to Leiden University where they studied...
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  • court of Louis XV due to the influence of the German writer Friedrich Melchior von Grimm. List of masses by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Carli, Ballola e Parenti...
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    daughter of Austrian diplomat, educational reformer, and art collector Johann Melchior Edler von Birkenstock (1738–1809) and his wife Carolina Josefa von Hay...
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    gifts on him, his relatives and friends. In a letter to Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, she praised his command of French, thus encouraging his...
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  • novelist and literary historian (born 1729) December 19 – Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German-born French memoirist and literary correspondent...
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    (d. 1790) December 22 – Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (d. 1787) December 26 – Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807) Date...
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    Tschudi's version of ca. 1570. These include the account in the chronicle of Melchior Russ from Lucerne. Dated to 1482, this is an incoherent compilation of...
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