Louis Du Four de Longuerue

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title: Louis Du Four de Longuerue
text: Louis Dufour de Longuerue – 22 November 1733), abbé of Sept-Fontaines and of Saint-Jean-du-Jard near Melun, known simply as the abbé de Longuerue, was an antiquarian, a linguist and historian, a child prodigy who became the protégé of Fénelon; in his turn Longuerue encouraged the Abbé Alary and the young cartographer-to-be, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697–1782), perhaps the greatest geographical author of the eighteenth century. As a philologist, he remarked on the astonishing progress
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