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Paris -published: A volume, Poesies Fugitives, published over his name in 1784, was repudiated by his widow and friends. He also published a prose translation of Milton's Paradise Lost, 3 vols. (paris -published 1755). Of his various writings only La Religion has been translated into English (London 1754). His complete works w.ere published in six volumes in 1808. He was made a member of the Academic des Inscriptions in 1719.Outside the field of pure mathematics he devoted considerable study to the system of the universe, and he invented the Robervallian balance. He was one of the original members of the French Academy of Science. During his lifetime he published nothing, but his works were published after his death in the Memoires de I'Academie des sciences (1693), and may be found in volume 6 of the edition published in paris -published in 1730.
The first collected edition containing nine tragedies then written was published in 1675-1676; another containing practically all of' his important works appeared in 1697. Both are in two volumes. Since then there have been almost innumerable editions of varying perfection. Among these one of the best is that published at paris -published in three volumes (1801-1805), regarded as a marvel of typography. An excellent edi-:ion of Oeuvres Completes was published in 10 volumes in 1865-1873 in Hachette's collection of :he Grands Ecrivains de la France, preceded by in admirable essay on Racine and his time >y Paul Mesnard. |
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