1620

Henri Justel

Sluiten
First name
Henri
Last name
Justel
Date of Birth
1620
Date of Death
1693
Born in
Paris
Died in
London

Henri Justel was secretary (1649–50) to Louis XIV of France. He fled to England (1681) at the time of the revocation of the Edict de Nantes, and became chief French agent to the Royal Society. Justel was member of the libertine coterie of Louis II de Bourbon with whom he would have enjoyed ‘libertin’ talk on the nature of the sacraments and on the place of the purgatory (cf. Treasure, 2001). Among his correspondents was Leibniz, with whom he wrote about Spinoza's posthumous works.

Relationships

Louis XIV of France

Client

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Correspondent

Jean Gallois

Friend