Nicolas de Malézieu

Nicolas de Malézieu was a French intellectual, Greek scholar and mathematician, born in Paris on 7 September 1650 and dead there on 4 March 1727. A squire and lord of Chatenay, he became chancellor of Dombes and tutor of the Duke of Maine, and he gave courses in astronomy and staged plays and festivals for the duchess at her literary salon at Sceaux. As tutor to the duc de Bourgogne he gave lessons in mathematics that he collected and published in 1705 as Élémens de géométrie de Mgr le duc de Bourgogne, whose observations on geometry and on infinitely small numbers were reported in detail in the Journal des savants; a Latin version appeared in 1713 and a posthumous third edition in 1729 with a treatise on logarithms. He joined the Académie royale des sciences in 1699 and the Académie française in 1701.