Albert-Henri de Sallengre

Born in The Hague in 1694, he came from a French Protestant refugee family settled in the Dutch Republic. Sources describe him as a Dutch man of letters of French origin, and note that his mother was connected to the Dutch poet Rotgans through her family.

He worked as a lawyer at the Court of Holland and also held public roles as a counselor to the Prince of Orange and a finance commissioner for the States General of the United Provinces. Alongside that official career, he was active in literary journalism and is associated with the early team behind the Journal littéraire de La Haye.

Sallengre is remembered for learned and wide-ranging works, including the Mémoires de littérature and large antiquarian compilations, as well as the more playful Éloge de l'ivresse. He died young in 1723, but his mix of scholarship, journalism, and wit gave him a lasting place in early eighteenth-century literary culture.