Gilles Ménage, was a French scholar. He was born at Angers, the son of Guillaume Ménage, king's advocate at Angers, where Gilles was born. A good memory and enthusiasm for learning carried him quickly through his literary and professional studies, and he practised at the bar at Angers before he was twenty. In 1632, he pleaded several causes before the parlement of Paris, but illness caused him to abandon the legal profession for the church.

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  • Gilles Ménage, was a French scholar. He was born at Angers, the son of Guillaume Ménage, king's advocate at Angers, where Gilles was born. A good memory and enthusiasm for learning carried him quickly through his literary and professional studies, and he practised at the bar at Angers before he was twenty. In 1632, he pleaded several causes before the parlement of Paris, but illness caused him to abandon the legal profession for the church. He became prior of Montdidier without taking holy orders, and lived for some years in the household of Cardinal de Retz (then coadjutor to the Archbishop of Paris), where he had leisure for literary pursuits. Some time after 1648 he quarrelled with his patron and withdrew to a house in the cloister of Notre-Dame de Paris, where he gathered round him on Wednesday evenings those literary assemblies which he called "Mercuriales". Jean Chapelain, Paul Pellisson, Valentine Conrart, Jean François Sarrazin and Du Bos were among the habitués. He was tutor to Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, later the great writer, to whom he was very attached. He was admitted to the Accademia della Crusca of Florence, but his caustic sarcasm led to his exclusion from the Académie française. Ménage made many enemies and suffered under the satire of Boileau and of Molière. Molière immortalized him as the pedant Vadius in Les Femmes savantes, a portrait Ménage pretended to ignore. In 1664 he published at London an edition of the Lives of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius that contains an unedited anonymous life of Aristotle; this life was known as 'Vita Menagiana' before the critical edition by Ingemar Düring, Aristotle in the ancient biographical tradition Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell 1957; reprinted New York, Garland, 1987, pp. 80-93) with the title 'Vita Hesychii' (the attribution to Hesychius of Miletus is controversial). Ménage died at Paris in 1692.
  • Gilles Ménage war ein französischer Literat und Philologe.
  • Gilles Ménage (Angers, 15 de agosto de 1613, París, 23 de julio de 1692, gramático y escritor francés. Hijo de un abogado de Angers, nieto de Pierre Ayraut, empezó a estudiar derecho para ser también abogado como su padre. Una enfemedad le obligó a abandonar esta carrera para ingresar en la carrera eclesiástica. Fue prior comanditario de Montdidier y, más tarde, formó parte de la camarilla del coadjutor de París Monsieur Gondi futuro cardenal de Retz. En 1648 se querelló contra Gondi y se apartó de él enclaustrándose en la Catedral de Notre Dame de París. No obstante abrió un salón literario en compañía de Jean Chapelain y de Paul Pellisson. Las reuniones, a las que Ménage llamaba las Mercuriales, se celebraban los miércoles. Extraordinario gramático, mantuvo fuertes polémicas con Vaugelas, en especial sobre sus Observations sur la langue française . Su tratado de los Orígenes de la lengua francesa, puede ser considerado como el primer gran diccionario etimológico francés. Molière hizo, en su obra Les Femmes Servantes, una caricatura de él, representada por el pedante personaje de Vadius
  • Gilles Ménage, né à Angers le 15 août 1613 et mort à Paris le 23 juillet 1692, est un grammairien, historien et écrivain français.
  • Жиль Менаж — французский филолог.
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  • Gilles Ménage, was a French scholar. He was born at Angers, the son of Guillaume Ménage, king's advocate at Angers, where Gilles was born. A good memory and enthusiasm for learning carried him quickly through his literary and professional studies, and he practised at the bar at Angers before he was twenty. In 1632, he pleaded several causes before the parlement of Paris, but illness caused him to abandon the legal profession for the church.
  • Gilles Ménage war ein französischer Literat und Philologe.
  • Gilles Ménage (Angers, 15 de agosto de 1613, París, 23 de julio de 1692, gramático y escritor francés. Hijo de un abogado de Angers, nieto de Pierre Ayraut, empezó a estudiar derecho para ser también abogado como su padre. Una enfemedad le obligó a abandonar esta carrera para ingresar en la carrera eclesiástica. Fue prior comanditario de Montdidier y, más tarde, formó parte de la camarilla del coadjutor de París Monsieur Gondi futuro cardenal de Retz.
  • Gilles Ménage, né à Angers le 15 août 1613 et mort à Paris le 23 juillet 1692, est un grammairien, historien et écrivain français.
  • Жиль Менаж — французский филолог.
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  • Gilles Ménage
  • Gilles Ménage
  • Gilles Ménage (grammairien)
  • Менаж, Жиль
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