• Jean Terrasson (31 January 1670 – 15 September 1750), often referred to as the Abbé Terrasson, was a French Catholic priest, author and member of the...
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  • Terrasson may refer to: People André Terrasson, French preacher Antoine Terrasson, 18th-century French erudite, nephew of Jean Gaspard Terrasson, French...
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  • originally published in six volumes at Paris in 1731 by the French abbé Jean Terrasson. An English translation by Thomas Lediard published at London by J....
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    medieval romance Yvain by Chrétien de Troyes, the novel Life of Sethos by Jean Terrasson, and the essay "On the mysteries of the Egyptians" by Ignaz von Born...
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    was also criticized by Ralph Cudworth). Early in the 18th century, Jean Terrasson had written Life of Sethos, a work of fiction, which launched the notion...
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    Burkina Faso) and Dr. Jean Terrasson Kourouma, the extramarital son of the French colonial administrator Jean Henri Terrasson de Fougères, who served for...
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    appears to have been the 1731 novel Life of Sethos by the French author Jean Terrasson. The work appeared in a German translation by Matthias Claudius in 1777–8...
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    is the 1731 novel Life of Sethos by a French cleric and classicist, Jean Terrasson. He claimed to have translated this book from an ancient Greek work...
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  • Marivaux; Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost; Life of Sethos by Jean Terrasson 1732 in literature – The magazine Then Swänska Argus is first published...
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  • work of fiction Sethos [...] (1731) by the Abbe Jean Terrasson (1670-1750), a professor of Greek. Terrasson had no access to Egyptian sources and he would...
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