John Colquhoun

“ Endowed with a robust constitution, which was preserved by a natural equality of temper, and general moderation in diet, Anquetil was capable of very laborious exertions, and is said to have passed ten hours every day, regularly, in study. When upwards of eighty, he still meditated extensive literary undertakings; but he was carried off by death, in the midst of his projects and researches, on the 6th of September 1808, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. On the evening previous to this event, he is reported to have said to one of his friends, “Come and see a man who is dying full of life.” ”

“ As an author, M. Anquetil does not stand very high in the ranks of literature. He possessed more industry in research, than ability or judgment in execution. His style is censurable in many respects, and he appears to have been almost entirely destitute of the critical discernment and philosophical sagacity, which are requisite to form the character of a good historian. The following is a list of his principal works.
1. Histoire Civile et Politique de la ville de Reims, 1756-57, 3 vols. ”