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    Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (26 September 1723 – 19 December 1807) was a German-born French-language journalist, art critic, diplomat and contributor...
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  • football player Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723–1807), German author Hans Melchior (1894–1984), German botanist Hans Bøchmann Melchior (1773–1831)...
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    woman of fashion, known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who gives unflattering reports...
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  • Baron de Grimm or Baron von Grimm may refer to: Constantin de Grimm (1845–1896), Russian-born artist and caricaturist Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm...
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  • MF Grimm (born 1970), American musician and comic book writer Marco Grimm (born 1972), German football player Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723–1807)...
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    provided with basic education at home. Their mentor was Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm. In 1774 they went to Leiden University where they studied...
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    the [French] Academy"—is well-known, among many others. Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm called him a "machine a saillies." He was later (1762) elected...
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    Potemkin replaced him as her lover. She wrote to her friend Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm about Vasilchikov's dismissal: "Why do you reproach me because...
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    Revolution. In the third category fell the work of Voltaire, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, Ferdinando Galiani, Nicolas Baudeau and Sir William Blackstone...
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    given the title of Adjutant General. When Catherine's friend Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm objected to Vasilchikov's dismissal, she wrote back to him...
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    gifts on him, his relatives and friends. In a letter to Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, she praised his command of French, thus encouraging his...
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  • political writer and politician (died 1790) December 26 – Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-born French philosopher and encyclopedist (died 1807)...
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  • novelist and literary historian (born 1729) December 19 – Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German-born French memoirist and literary correspondent...
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    Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745) December 19 – Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723) December 21 – John Newton, English...
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  • Diderot indicated the end of his revisions in a letter to Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm dated the 23 September 1772. For more details on this triptych...
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    Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (d. 1787) December 26 – Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807) Date unknown Carl Albert von Lespilliez...
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  • Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672) 1807 – Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-French author and playwright (b. 1723) 1813 – James...
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  • Saint-Lambert, French soldier and philosopher (d. 1803) 1723 – Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-French author and playwright (d. 1807) 1737 – Prince...
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    contact with the Parisian writer and theater and music critic Friedrich Melchior Baron von Grimm. Thanks to his connections, she was in lively exchange of...
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    Rousseau and Baron d'Holbach. His contacts also included others who worked for the Journal étranger such as Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, who edited...
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    written after the tour, Leopold quotes the German diplomat Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, who after hearing the children play had said: "Now for once...
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    pre-romantic expression of existential void and pessimism", to Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, "who knew Lanskoy well, [and had] remained in his good graces":...
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  • case, see: Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, Lettre du 15 mars 1765, in: Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique de Grimm et de Diderot...
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  • at least one additional copy existed in the possession of Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, editor of the Correspondance littéraire. (The possibility...
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  • regent of Weimar and Eisenach (born 1739) 19 December – Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German writer (born 1723) Tikkanen, Amy (30 July 2018)....
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    through the efforts of Lady Asgill. Writer and diplomat Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm recorded this interest in his memoirs, stating: "The public...
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  • Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (d. 1787) December 26 – Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807) Date unknown Carl Albert von Lespilliez...
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  • fundraiser for astronomical research MPC · 6911 6912 Grimm 1991 GQ Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723–1807), German encyclopedist MPC · 6912 6913...
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    contemporary portraits by him, including one of Marshal Blücher, after Friedrich Rehberg. Swaine contributed engravings to 'The Gentleman's Magazine’ for...
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    von Bilderling came through Livonia with Friedrich, grandson of Johan, and the fiefs of Karrinem and Taifer, then Lithuania with Johan then Melchior and...
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