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Claude François Fraguier (27 August 1660, Paris – 3 May 1728, Paris) was a French churchman and writer.
Fraguier became a Jesuit at a young age, but he left the order in 1694 to devote himself to literature. A classicist and author of dissertations on classical history, he was professor of theology at Caen and collaborated on the Journal des savants. He was a friend of Huet, Segrais, Mme de Lafayette and Ninon de Lenclos.
He was elected to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1705 and to the Académie française in 1717.
Voltaire said of him in his Siècle de Louis XIV "he was a good littérateur and full of taste. He put Plato's philosophy into good Latin verse. He would have done better to have written good French verse."
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- Catalogue de la plupart des écrivains français qui ont paru dans le Siècle de Louis XIV, pour servir à l’histoire littéraire de ce temps, 1751
Bouillet, Marie-Nicolas; Chassang, Alexis, eds. (1878). Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French). {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty|title=(help)
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- 1660 births
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- Writers from Paris
- French poets
- Academic staff of the University of Caen Normandy
- 18th-century French Catholic theologians
- French classical scholars
- Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- Translators to Latin
- Translators from Greek
- French translators
- 17th-century French translators
- 17th-century French Jesuits
- French male poets
- French male non-fiction writers
- 18th-century French male writers
- 17th-century French male writers
- Neo-Latin poets