Claude de Thiard de Bissy
Contributions
- Lettres sur l'esprit du patriotisme, sur l'idée d'un roi patriote, et sur l'état des parties qui divisaient l'Angleterre lors de l'avènement de George 1er translation translator
Member of
- Académie française academic institution
Notes
Claude de Thiard de Bissy, also known as the comte de Bissy, was a French soldier who reached the rank of lieutenant-général des armées du roi in 1762. He then became governor of Languedoc and Auxonne.
A descendant of the poet Pontus de Tyard he wrote poetry and chansons, as well as the 'Histoire d'Ema ou de l'âme' (1752). He also translated Edward Young's poems. He was elected a member of the Académie Française in 1750.