Joseph Joubert
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"Joseph Joubert" was a French moralists/French moralist and List of essayists/essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées (Thoughts), which was published posthumously.

From the age of fourteen Joubert attended a religious college in Toulouse, where he later taught until 1776. In 1778 he went to Paris where he met Jean le Rond d'Alembert/D'Alembert and Denis Diderot/Diderot, amongst others, and later became a friend of a young writer and diplomat, François-René de Chateaubriand/Chateaubriand.



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