Quotes:Dupuis, Charles-François

Zirkoff, Boris

Dupuis, Charles-François (1742-1809). French scholar, philosopher and politician, b. at Trye-Château (Oix), Oct. 26, 1742; d. at Is-sur-Tille (Côte-d’Or), Sept. 29, 1809. Educ. at the Harcourt Collège, owing to the influence of the Duke de La Rochefoucauld ; graduated in theology and taught rhetoric at the Collège de Lisieux. Left religious pursuits, 1770, became lawyer and married, 1775. When in Paris, studied astronomy under Lalande, and conceived his special system of philosophy and history, acc. to which all the religions were viewed as coming from same source, and all branches of human knowledge were derived from astronomy. Frederick the Great offered him the chair of literature at Berlin. Joined the Académie des Inscriptions, 1788, and became Prof, of Latin eloquence at Collège de France. Appointed Commissary of public instruction, 1790. Favored Bonaparte and was on the legislative corps under the Consulate.

Chief works: Origine de tous les cultes, ou Religion Universelle. Paris: H. Agasse [1795]. 7 vols. 8vo. New corr. and rev. ed., with essay on Zodiac of Denderah and biogr. notes on the author. Paris: É. Babeuf, 1822; also Paris: Louis Rosier, 1835, in 10 vols.—Engl, transl. publ. at New Orleans, 1872. 3 prt.—Mémoire sur l’origine des constellations, etc., Paris, 1781.—Mémoire explicatif du Zodiaque chronologique et mythologique, Paris, 1806.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 8, p. 436

Dupuis, Charles-François (1742-1809). Vide Vol. VIII, p. 436 for biographical data.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, p. 413