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1226 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
respect than any other man about him. He was the reader of
all the papers which the King himself handed in to the Academy ;
he edited almost everything which the King printed, and cor
rected a great number of his works. Notwithstanding the favour
in which he stood at the Court of Berlin, he resolved in 1784 to
return to France, for the purpose, it seems, of carrying out some
pet schemes of his own, one of which referred to the establishment
of Mutual Fire Insurance Companies, and the other to the proper
organization of libraries. After his return to Paris he was appointed
sub-chief of the Royal Library, and was just beginning to introduce
his reforms, when the revolution put an end to his plans. After
filling many offices under the new government, he was chosen in
1799 professor of general grammar in the École Centrale de la Rue
Saint-Antoine, and in 1803 was transferred to the Lycée, which had
recently been established at Versailles ; and there he died in 1807.
Thiébault was the author of several works on education, language,
and general grammar, and also on libraries. The work in which
he gives his version of the "Queen’s Story," as he heard it from the
Queen of Sweden herself (Document 275, M), and that of the "Lost
Receipt," as he had heard it from Chamberlain von Ammon, Madame
de Marteville’s brother, (Document 274, H) is entitled : Mes Souvenirs
de vingt ans de séjour à Berlin, ou Frédéric le Grand, sa famille,
sa cour, son gouvernement, son académie, ses écoles, et ses amis
littérateurs et philosophes, (My recollections of a stay of twenty
years in Berlin, or Frederic the Great, his family, his court, his
government, his academy, his schools, and his literary and philoso
phical friends). Of this work, which is written in a somewhat diffuse
style, but which abounds with curious details which are little known,
three editions appeared, the first in 1804 in five volumes, the second
in 1813 in four volumes, and the third in 1827 in five volumes.
NOTE 245.
MERIAN, THE ACADEMICIAN.
Merian and Thiébault were the two academicians in Berlin, to
whom Queen Louisa Ulrica gave an account of her experience with
Swedenborg (see Document 274, p. 644, and Document 275, p. 655) ;
the Queen, however, must have enjoined upon them not to communi
cate her story to others, as is proved by Pernety’s account, Docu
ment 275, p. 657. From the "Nouvelle Biographie Générale," we
derive the following particulars respecting Merian:
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