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Louis-pierre AnquetilLouis-Pierre Anquetil (February 21, 1723 - September 6, 1808), French historian, was born in Paris. He entered the agregation of Sainte-Genevive, where he took holy orders and came professor of theology and literature. Later, he became reector of the seminary at Reims, where he wrote his Histoire politique de Reims (5 vols., 1756-1757), perhaps his best work. He was then director of the college of Senlis, where he composed his Esprit de la Ligue ou histoire politique des troubles la Fronde pendant le XVI et XVII sicles (1767). During the Reign of Terror he was imprisoned at St Lazare; there he began his Prcis de l'histoire universelle, afterwards published in three volumes. On the establishment of the national institute he was elected a member of the second group (moral and political sciences), and was soon afterwards employed in the office of the ministry of foreign affairs, profiting by his experience to write his Motifs des guerres et des traits de paix sous Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI. He is said to have been asked by Napoleon to write his Histoire de France (14 vols,, 1805), a mediocre compilation at second or third hand, with the assistance of de Mzeray or Paul Franois Velly (1709-1759). This work, nevertheless, passed through numerous editions, and by his name is remembered.
Anquetil, Louis-Pierre Anquetil, Louis-Pierre
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