Joseph de La Porte

For other uses, see Laporte.

Joseph de La Porte, baptised (19 January 1714 in Belfort – died 19 December 1779) was an 18th-century French priest, literary critic, poet and playwright.

A member of the Society of Jesus, abbot de La Porte first worked to some periodical publications, in society with Fréron and, among others, with L'Année littéraire.

Temporarily in bad relation with Fréron, abbot de La Porte began in 1758 to publish l'Observateur littéraire. The first sheet of this periodical for the year 1761, including Voltaire, implacable enemy of Freron, speaking of "a masterpiece of its kind," contained an article on l’Année littéraire, a newspaper where Father La Porte saw "a designed plot consisting of censorship, debasing, and decrying the masterpieces, and placing our most famous writers below more obscure literators."

A prolific author, abbot de La Porte also wrote a large number of books and compilations. His first writing was the Voyage au séjour des ombres, critical book that had some success. He then made a periodical entitled Observations sur la littérature moderne as it applied to contradict Fréron.

Works

Commentaire de Brunet ,III-836: Le Voyageur francois :édition en 42 volumes dont 28 par de La Porte puis repris par Fontenai et Domairon: "Pretty well written compilation, but duly maligned because of its inaccuracy. The continuation is not worth the first 28 volumes".

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