Nicolas-Léopold Liébault (c. 1723 in Nancy – 1795) was an 18th-century French officer, writer and collaborator of the Encyclopédie by Diderot and D’Alembert.Frank A. Kafker : Notices sur les auteurs des dix-sept volumes de « discours » de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année 1989 Volume 7 Numéro 7 p. 149 He was the author of two articles former, dresser and fuite, providing the definition of certain military terms (régiment de Royal Lorraine).
His father was a lawyer in Nancy. His brother was Nicolas-François-Xavier Liébault (1716-1800). The brothers were commissioned as officers of the depot of the Seven Years' War since about 1756 until 1758.
Sources Jacques Proust (1995), Diderot et l'Encyclopédie. Albin Michel, Paris p. 516 English Showalter (1985), Correspondance de Mme de Graffigny. Voltaire Foundation, Oxford p. 28-29
References