Nicolas Beauzée

Nicolas Beauzée was a French linguist, author of Grammaire générale and one of the main contributors to the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert on the topic of grammar. In 1772 he was named as the successor to Charles Pinot Duclos in the Académie française.

Life and work

Early years and tenure at École Militaire

Beauzée was born on 9 May 1717 in Verdun. The Church register for the parish of Saint-Sauveur lists his father as a labourer. A scholarship allowed him to attend the Jesuit college at Verdun.