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.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.
