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| Places | France | |
| was | Writer Translator | |
| Work field | Literature | |
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| Birth | 23 March 1741, Toulouse | |
| Death | 28 January 1803 (aged 61 years) | |
| Star sign | Aries |
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Abbot Dominique Ricard (24 March 1741, Toulouse – 28 January 1803, Paris) was an 18th-century French translator.
Born in Toulouse, he was teacher of rhetorics at the college of Auxerre, then special tutor to Jérôme-Pélagie Masson de Meslay's son (president of the Chambre des comptes of Paris from 1768 to 1790), called président de Meslay.
We owe him a translation of the Works by Plutarch: the Moralia were published from 1783 to 1795, and the Vies des Hommes illustres from 1798 to 1803.
Dominique Ricard was a member of the Société des observateurs de l'homme.