Jean Baptiste Prs
Jean-Baptiste Peres, born in Valence d'Agen in 1752 , and died in 1840 , was professor of mathematics and physics at the Oratory in Birmingham, then a magistrate in Agen where he ended his life in the library curator.
What made it famous, is a pamphlet published anonymously in 1827 , Like what Napoleon had never existed. Grand erratum. Source of an infinite number of errata to be corrected in the history of the nineteenth century. His intention was to ridicule the mythistes theses of Charles-Francois Dupuis who claim to establish the nonexistence of Jesus of Nazareth , showing that it was sufficient to apply their methods to "prove" the absence of Napoleon.
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Like what Napoleon never existed or Grand erratum, the source of an infinite number of errata note in the history of the nineteenth century, 1827.
The text is accessible online at the following sites:
Recent reissue: Peres, Jean-Baptiste / Sciascia, Leonardo. The great erratum, followed by Jette mask, Bonaparte!. Grenoble: One hundred pages, 2003.
