Mathieu Marais

Matthieu Marais. French jurist and writer, born at Paris in 1664, died at the same city on the 21st of June 1737.¹ Legal advocate at the Parlement of Paris, he was one of the luminaries of the bar during his times. His life does not offer elsewhere any salient trait. Friend of Bayle, he collaborated on the Dictionaire Historique, and wrote the articles Henri III; Henri, duc de Guise; Marguerite, reine (queen) of Navarre, etc. Bound up with the president Bouhier, he maintained with him an interesting correspondence, published in the Journal de Paris from 1721 to 1727. He also wrote for the Mercure a Critique of the panegyric of Sacy (by M^me Lambert).

Chardon de la Rochette discovered a posthumous writing of Matthieu Marais: Historie de la Vie et des Ouvrages de M. de la Fontaine; Paris, 1811, in -12 et in -18 ("History of the life and works of Mr de la Fontaine").

Marais is also author of Memoires intéressants sur les premieres années du règne de Louis XV, which was published during those same years.