Charles Batteux advances for the first time…
1746 CE
Born in Alland'Huy-et-Sausseuil, Ardennes, Batteux had studied theology at Reims and in 1739 had come to Paris, and after teaching in the colleges of Lisieux and Navarre, had been appointed to the chair of Greek and Roman philosophy in the Collège de France.
His 1746 treatise Les beaux arts réduits à un même principe is an attempt to find a unity among existing theories of beauty and taste on "a single principle", and its views will soon be widely accepted, not only in France but throughout Europe.