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Mathieu-Guillaume-Thérèse Villenave

Saint-Félix-Lauragais 1762-14-13 – 1846-03-16 Nantes English, French Main: Nantes Paris translator Villenave, Mathieu-Guillaume-Thérèse, 1762-1846 (viaf) Matthieu Villenave (wikidata)

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  1. Mémoire de Thomas Payne [...] à M. Monroe [...] pour reclamer sa mise en liberté translation translator

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Villenave had a lively publishing career. Besides translating Virgil and Ovid, as well as novelists, such as Charlotte Smith, he also acted as a publisher/editor for some by Jean-Francois Marmontel and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. As a journalist, he edited and published 'Le Rodeur francais' (1789-90) and 'Annales politiques, morales et littéraires' (1815-19).

Villenave came from a family of Protestant converts (hence his association with Billaud-Varenne's address to the Convention), was tutor to the duc de Richelieu's children and resettled in Nantes after April 1792 where began a new career at the bar and met the ex-mayor of Paris, Sylvain Bailly, during his imprisonment in September 1793, when the wrote 'Le cri du républicain persécuté' (1794).

After his death, his love letters to his wife Jeanne Marianne Tasset, who was born in London, were published (1890) and became a minor romantic sensation.