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Joseph Joubert

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born

May 07, 1754 in Montignac, Périgord, France

died

May 04, 1824

gender

male

genre

Nonfiction

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Joseph Joubert was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées published posthumously.

From the age of 14 Joubert attended a religious college in Toulouse, where he later taught until 1776. In 1778 he went to Paris where he met D'Alembert and Diderot, amongst others, and later became friends with young writer and diplomat Chateaubriand.

He alternated between living in Paris with his friends and life in the privacy of the countryside in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne. He was appointed inspector-general of the University under Napoleon.

Joubert published nothing during his lifetime, but he wrote a copious amount of letters and filled sheets of paper and small notebooks with thoughts about the nature of human existence, literat...more

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Books by Joseph Joubert

Average rating: 4.29 · 56 ratings · 11 reviews · 31 distinct works

	The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert 4.42 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Pensڳees And Letters Of Joseph Joubert by Joseph Joubert, H.P. Collins (Translator) 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1928	My rating:
	Notebooks/J. Joubert by Joseph Joubert, Paul Auster 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1983	My rating:
	The First Council Fire 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Pens Es by Joseph Joubert, Giraud Victor 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Pens Es de J. Joubert: PR C D Es de Sa Correspondance, D'Une Notice Sur Sa Vie, Volume 1 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	En dahabi 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Penses de J. Joubert: Prcdes de Sa Correspondance, D'Une Notice Sur Sa Vie, Son Caractre Et Ses Travaux, Volume 2 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Penses de J. Joubert, Volume 2 by Joseph Joubert, Paul De Raynal 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Some of the Thoughts of Joseph Joubert (1867) by Joseph Joubert, George Henry Calvert 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating: