Jean Terrasson

Terrasson, Jean, abbé (1670-1750). An early freemason and member of the Académie Française and Académie des Inscriptions. He was a champion of the modernes (Dissertation sur l'Iliade d'Homère, 1715) [see Querelle], and wrote a long novel Séthos (1731), which is a combination of political instruction, a guide to Egyptian antiquity, and a novel of masonic initiation.

[Peter France]