Family Name: Lefranc
First Name: Jean-Jacques
Birth Date: Fri, Aug 09, 1709
Birth Place: Montauban
Death Date: Sun, Oct 31, 1784
Death Place: Pompignan
Main places of activity:
Place From To
Montauban 1708 1744
Place From To
Paris 1757 1762
Place From To
Pompignan 1762 1783
Personal info:
Education

Jean-Jacques Lefranc was born in a family of "noblesse de robe" which held, since 1640, the office of President of the regional Cour des Aides. After successfully completing his classical studies (at the Collège Louis-le-Grand, in Paris), he attended the School of Law and joined the staff of the Cour des Aides.
Career

In 1747, he was appointed conseiller d'honneur of the Toulouse parlement.

In 1759, he was received at the Académie française.

He was also a member of the Italian Accademia etrusca di Cortone and of the Académie des Jeux floraux of Toulouse.
Financial Situation

The Lefranc family were originally landlords of the Chateau de Cayx, located in the district of Cahors in southern France. As a member of the gentry class (he was a marquis), Jean-Jacques had a comfortable life.
Translations Other Works

translations activities

J.-J. Lefranc de Pompignan was essentially a translator of poetry (from Greek, Latin and English). He translated, amongst others, the "Tragedies" of Aeschylus, the "Georgics" of Virgil, some "Odes" of Horace, and, from English, "the Universal Prayer" of Alexander Pope.

secondary bibliography references

BRAUN, Theodore E. D., Un ennemi de Voltaire : Le Franc de Pompignan, Paris, Minard, 1972.

DUFFO, Abbé François-Albert, Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan, Poète et Magistrat, Paris, Picard, 1913.

Lumières voilées. Œuvres choisies d'un magistrat chrétien du XVIIIe siècle, textes de Lefranc de Pompignan présentés par Theodeore E. D. BRAUN et Guillaume ROBICHEZ, Saint-Étienne, Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne, 2007.

ROBICHEZ, Guillaume, J.-J. Lefranc de Pompignan : Un humaniste chrétien au siècle des Lumières, Paris, SEDES, 1987 (Paris, Eurédit, 2015).

Translations

  • The Universal Prayer

  • Translation Title: La Prière universelle, traduite de Pope
  • Original Author: Alexander Pope
  • Original title: The Universal Prayer
  • Publ. Year From: 1737 to: 1737
  • lang: English
  • Note:

    First published by Robert Dodsley on 22 June 1738 in a folio of eight pages (Griffith 492; Foxon P492)
  • Translation: La Prière universelle, traduite de Pope
  • Publisher: P. Vaillant
  • Pub. Place: London
  • Pub. Date: 1739
  • Lang: French

  • Georgica

  • Translation Title: Les Géorgiques de Virgile et Les Travaux et les Jours d’Hésiode, poèmes traduits en vers français par Le Franc de Pompignan, dans Œuvres complètes, t. IV
  • Original Author: Publius Vergilius Maro (usually called Virgil)
  • Original title: Georgica
  • Translation: Les Géorgiques de Virgile et Les Travaux et les Jours d’Hésiode, poèmes traduits en vers français par Le Franc de Pompignan, dans Œuvres complètes, t. IV
  • Publisher: Nyon l’aîné
  • Pub. Place: Paris
  • Pub. Date: 1783
  • Lang: French
  • Note:

    A collection of several translations by Lefranc de Pompignan was published the same year under the title: “Mélanges de traductions de différens ouvrages grecs, latins et anglois, sur des matières de politique, de littérature et d’histoire (Paris, Nyon l’aîné, 1784).

  • Tragoediae

  • Translation Title: Tragédies d'Eschyle, traduites en français
  • Original Author: Aeschylus
  • Original title: Tragoediae
  • Publ. Year From: 0479 to: 0409
  • Translation: Tragédies d'Eschyle, traduites en français
  • Publisher: Saillant & Nyon
  • Pub. Date: 1769
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