of ook wel: Octavie Durey de Meyni\u00e8res-Belot was een jonge weduwe van een advocaat (zie brief aan Robertson ->
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\u2020\u00a01 Octavie Guichard, Madame Belot (died 1805). Left a young widow with an income of only 60 livres a year, she sold her annuity for 1,200 livres and spent the money in learning English. Her first book was Reflexions d’une provinciale sur le discours de J.-Jacques Rousseau touchant l’in\u00e9galit\u00e9 des conditions, 1756; her second, M\u00e9langes de litt\u00e9rature angloise, 2 parts, 1759 (which included a translation of Garth’s Dispensary). Her Hume translations were: Histoire de la Maison de Tudor, sur le Tr\u00e1\u00b4ne d’Angleterre, Par M. David Hume, Traduite de l’Anglois, Par Madame B***, Amsterdam, 2 vols., 4to, 1763; and Histoire de la Maison de Plantagenet, sur le Tr\u00e1\u00b4ne d’Angleterre, Depuis l’Invasion de Jules C\u00e9sar, jusqu’ \u00e1\u00a0 l’av\u00e9nement de Henry VII. Par M. David Hume, Traduite de l’Anglois Par Madame B***, Amsterdam, 2 vols., 4to, 1765. She also translated Johnson’s Rasselas, 1768. In Dec. 1765 she married Jean-Baptiste-Fran\u00e1\u00a7ois Durey de Meini\u00e8res, Pr\u00e9sident de Meini\u00e8res (born 1705), who had some time before established her in his house in order that she might have the use of his fine library.”<\/p>\n
Ze ontmoette Hume in Frankrijk, toen hij daar aan het hof werkte? (Malherbe, 82n169\/170) Le Blanc had given up the idea of translating Hume’s History and committed the task to a friend ‘homme d’esprit et laborieu'(Greig 1932, 1 258 n.) .. etc. of ook wel: Octavie Durey de Meyni\u00e8res-Belot was een jonge weduwe van een advocaat (zie brief aan Robertson -> citaat) \u2020\u00a01 Octavie Guichard, Madame Belot (died 1805). Left a young widow with an income of only 60 livres a year, she sold her annuity for 1,200 livres and spent the money in learning English. Her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[191,229],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archief.somtijds.nl\/hume-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archief.somtijds.nl\/hume-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archief.somtijds.nl\/hume-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archief.somtijds.nl\/hume-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archief.somtijds.nl\/hume-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archief.somtijds.nl\/hume-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/archief.somtijds.nl\/hume-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archief.somtijds.nl\/hume-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archief.somtijds.nl\/hume-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archief.somtijds.nl\/hume-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAfter his arrival in Paris, Hume met Madame Belot, ‘a woman of merit, the wido of an advocae’who translated English to make a living Her translation procured her a pension from the Court (see Hume’s letter to William Robertson, 1 December 1763, Greeg 1932, 1: 223-24). In his Coorespondance littt\u00e9raire Girmm is very critical of the quality of these translations: Pr’vost’s trnaslation is loose, dull and bourgeois, and het strongly doubts that Hume has checked Madame Belot’s translation of the Plantagenets, in spite of what she says in the advertisement. He finally concldes: ‘Nous pouvons nous flatter d\u00e1\u00a1voir une traduction enti\u00e8re et bien mauvaaise de tout l’ouvrage de Monsieur Hume’.
\n171 If Madame Belot’s translation of the Tudors<\/em> appeared without difficulty, it was probably only after the personal intervention of Hume to Malesherbes that the translation of the Plantagenets could overcome hostil resistance. See Bongie 1958, 241-44)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"