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THIEBAULT, THE ACADEMICIAN. 1225
entered the room and awakened the company. They then entered
into the most interesting conversation, which they kept up until
seven o’clock. Punctually at seven o’clock the company rose, so
that I frequently heard the people who lived in the same street,
remark, that it was not yet seven o’clock, because Professor Kant
had not yet passed. On Sundays the friends, who were then joined
by Hay, the Scotch merchant, and several others, remained to supper,
which consisted of a frugal repast of cold meat.
"This friendly intercourse, which existed during the middle age
of the philosopher, no doubt exerted a decided influence on his
heart and on his character. Green’s death introduced also a change
into his course of life, so that he never afterwards attended
evening parties, nor ate supper. It seemed as if that time, which
had once been devoted to the most intimate friendship, was ever
afterwards consecrated by him to the departed friend, and that to
the end of his life he desired to spend it in tranquil solitude."
Hippel said in Schlichtegroll’s Nekrolog (Obituary notices) for
1792, Part II, p. 318, "I knew in this town an English merchant,
by the name of Green, Kant’s friend, who found comfort in every
thing, even in his own death ; in his death he found this comfort
that he would play a trick to his terrible sufferings, which would
then surely cease."
NOTE 244.
THIÉBAULT, THE ACADEMICIAN.
Thiébault (Dieudonné) was born December 26, 1733, at La Roche,
near Remiremont. He was educated by the Jesuits at Colmar,
Dijon, and Épinal. Urged by his masters to enter their order he
did so, and at the end of his novitiate course was appointed professor
of the humanities in several colleges of Lorraine and Champagne.
When the order was broken up in 1762 he turned layman again,
and applied himself to jurisprudence with a view of practising at
the bar of Colmar. But being led to Paris he remained there, and
devoted himself to literature. Having written some works with ele
gance and ease, he made friends among the philosophers. Soon
after D’Alembert and others recommended him to Frederic the
Great, by whom he was appointed to the chair of general grammar
in the military school in Berlin, in 1765. He made a favourable
impression on the King at their first interview, so that he appointed
him at once a member of the Academy, with a pension. For twenty
years he enjoyed the confidence of Frederic, who treated him with more
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