Frenicle de bessy biography template

Frénicle de Bessy was an excellent amateur mathematician whose father and brother both held official positions as counsellors at the Court of Monnais in Paris. Very little is known about his life (even his year of birth is a guess) and, given that he was one of the founder members of the Paris Academy of Sciences and has an Éloge written by the Marquis de Condorcet, this must give us one obvious fact about Frénicle de Bessy, namely that he was a very private man.

Even Pierre de Fermat, with whom Frénicle de Bessy corresponded, commented in August 1638 that he knew nothing of the man. Historians have come up with some guesses about Frénicle de Bessy, but little in the way of hard facts about him have emerged other than his letters and writings about mathematics.

Let us quote from David Sturdy [4]:-

Born and raised in Paris, Frénicle de Bessy must have graduated in law before proceeding to hold the office of 'conseiller à la cour des monnaies'. This tribun