CLAUDE-FRANÇOIS ACHARD DANS SA JEUNESSE : Médecin, académicien et franc-maçon marseillais à la fin du XVIIIe siècle.

A biography of Claude-François Achard, a historian, physician, and Freemason from Marseille, France, is presented. It analyzes certain lesser known aspects of the first half of his intellectual life and as a Freemason toward the end of the 18th century. The author discusses his upbringing in a wealthy merchant family and his religious and classical education, his career as a physician and author, and his reception at the scholar society Académie de Marseille, France.