, was born July 1647, at Paris. He applied himself to studying the
, was born July
1647, at Paris. He applied himself to studying the Scriptures and councils, and conceived so great a contempt for
scholastic divinity, as to give up the design he had entertained of being a doctor of the Sorbonne. He was curate
of Flamingrie, in the diocese of Laon, 1680; but imbibing
the tenets of the Protestants, and fearing lest he should be
arrested for the opinions which he propagated in his sermons and discourses, he went to Paris, 1688, and afterwards took refuge at Geneva, where he married, 1690. He
at first taught French to the foreign nobility; but was afterwards declared a citizen, and admitted into one of the
first classes of the college at Geneva, in which city he died
May 1723. His best works are those which he published
in France before his retiring to Geneva, they are, “Un
traite de l'Egalite des deux sexes,
” Traite
de l‘ Education des Dames, pour laconduite de l’esprit dans
les sciences et dans les mceurs,
” 12mo. “De Texcellence
des Hommes contre l'Egalite des Sexes,
” 12mo. “Rapports de la Langue Latine a la Franchise,
” 12mo. John
James de la Barre, his son, was author of “Pensees philosophiques et theologiques,
”