Family Name:

Bergier

First Name:

Claude-François

Birth Date:

1719

Birth Place:

Darney

Death Date:

1783

Death Place:

Darney

Personal info:

Career Bergier was apparently a lawyer.

Translations

Original Title	Translation title	Author
Observations on the Religion, Law, Government and Manners of the Turks	Observations sur la religion, les loix, le gouvernement, et les mœurs des Turcs	James Porter
An inquiry into the beauties of painting and into the merits of the most celebrated painters, ancient and modern	Recherches sur les beautés de la peinture et sur le mérite desplus célèbres peintres anciens et modernes	Daniel Webb
An Essay on the History of Civil Society	Essai sur l'histoire de la société civile	Adam Ferguson
Inayat-Allah	Dissertation sur les mœurs, les usages, le langage, la religion et la philosophie des Hindoux, suivie d'une Exposition générale et succincte du gouvernement et de l'état actuel de l'Hindostan	Alexander Dow

Bergier translated several essays from English into French.

Observations on the Religion, Law, Government and Manners of the Turks
Translation Title: Observations sur la religion, les loix, le gouvernement, et les mœurs des Turcs
Original Author: James Porter

Original title: Observations on the Religion, Law, Government and Manners of the Turks
Publ. Year From: 1767 to:
lang: English
Note:
The work was published anonymously

Translation: Observations sur la religion, les loix, le gouvernement, et les mœurs des Turcs
Publisher: Merlin
N° Editions: 2
Pub. Place: Paris
Pub. Date: 1768
Lang: French
Note:
The title page reads 'Londres, et se trouve à Paris, chez Merlin, rue de la Harpe, à Saint-Joseph'.
It also indicates the name of the translator as 'M. B***'
Another edition, Observations sur la religion, les loix, le gouvernement, et les mœurs des Turcs, which included several notes critical of intolerance and organised religion, both Islam and Christianity, was published by the Société typographique de Neuchâtel in 1770. It is not known who wrote the notes; it is unlikely that they were by Bergier.

An inquiry into the beauties of painting and into the merits of the most celebrated painters, ancient and modern
Translation Title: Recherches sur les beautés de la peinture et sur le mérite desplus célèbres peintres anciens et modernes
Original Author: Daniel Webb

Original title: An inquiry into the beauties of painting and into the merits of the most celebrated painters, ancient and modern
Publ. Year From: 1759 to:
lang: English

Translation: Recherches sur les beautés de la peinture et sur le mérite desplus célèbres peintres anciens et modernes
Publisher: Briasson
Pub. Place: Paris
Pub. Date: 1764
Lang: French

Inayat-Allah
Translation Title: Dissertation sur les mœurs, les usages, le langage, la religion et la philosophie des Hindoux, suivie d'une Exposition générale et succincte du gouvernement et de l'état actuel de l'Hindostan
Original Author: Alexander Dow

Original title: Inayat-Allah
Publ. Year From: 1767 to:
lang: English
Note:
This is a translation by Alexander Dow of a Persian work by Muhamad Casim Ferishta of Delhi.

Translation: Dissertation sur les mœurs, les usages, le langage, la religion et la philosophie des Hindoux, suivie d'une Exposition générale et succincte du gouvernement et de l'état actuel de l'Hindostan
Publisher: Pissot
Pub. Place: Paris
Pub. Date: 1768
Lang: French
Note:
Bergier explains in his Preface that he had translated 2 pieces from Dow's translation of the Persian work. He includes a translation of parts of Dow's Preface concerning the text, and also adds notes by another English author.

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