- 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.