Noël Etienne, a Jesuit, and professor of humanity at Caen, was born at Rouen in 1676. He became acquainted with Huet, Bishop of Avranches, whose taste for literature and poetry was similar to his own. Sanadon afterwards taught rhetoric at the university of Paris, and upon the death of Du Cerceau he was entrusted with the education of the Prince of Conti. In 1728 he was made librarian to Louis XIV., an office which he retained to his death, which took place on the 21st of September 1733, in the fifty-seventh year of his age.
His works are, Poetica Latina, in 12mo, 1715, reprinted by Barhou, in 8vo, 1754. These poems consist of odes, elegies, and epigrams on various subjects. A translation of Horace, with remarks, in two vols., 4to, printed at Paris in 1727. The best edition of this work was printed at Amsterdam in 1735 in 8 vols., 12mo, in which are also inserted the versions and notes of Madame Dacier, whose version of Horace is decidedly inferior to that of Sanadon, although his version is rather a paraphrase than a faithful translation, and possesses very few of the beauties of Horace. A collection of Discours, delivered at different times, afford strong proofs of his knowledge of oratory and poetry. A book entitled Prières et Instructions Chrétienues, 1752, gives good evidence of genuine piety.
SÁNCHEZ, Francisco, commonly called "El Brocense," the best classical scholar of his day in Spain, was born at Las Brozas in Estremadura in 1523. After taking his bachelor's degree at Valladolid, he went to Salamanca, where he obtained the chair of rhetoric in 1554. He likewise taught Greek and Latin, and had the honour to be spoken of in the highest terms by such learned men as Justus Lipsius and Scipio. Lipsius, after designating him the "divine" and the "admirable," calls him "the Mercury and the Apollo of Spain." Having edited several classical authors, and having taken his doctor's degree, he devoted all his time to the great work Minerva, seu de causis linguae Latinae Commentarius, which appeared in 1587, and which has frequently been reprinted. This work raised the author's reputation to the highest pitch. He resigned his chair of rhetoric into the hands of his son-in-law in 1593, and died on the 17th January 1601, aged 77.
Sanchez wrote a great many smaller works, which are contained in the 4-vol. edition of his minor writings of 1766. Prefixed to the first volume is a Life of the author by Mayans.
SÁNCHEZ, Francisco, a physician and sceptical philosopher, who is frequently confounded with the eminent classic of the same name, was born of Jewish parents during the latter half of the sixteenth century at Brivara, or, according to others, at Tuy, on the frontiers of Portugal. He pursued his studies for a time at Bordeaux, but his father having been exiled while he was still young, he completed his medical education at Rome. In 1573 he graduated in medicine at Montpellier, took up his residence at Toulouse, and professed philosophy for twenty-five years and medicine for eleven with remarkable success. He died in 1632.
Sanchez has left the following philosophical work, which assigns him a place beside his sceptical contemporaries, Montaigne and Charon, viz., Tractatus de multum nobilit et prima universali scientia, quod nihil securit, 4to, Lyons, 1581; Franc. 1628; Rotterdam, 1649. A complete edition of his writings, medical and philosophical, will be found under the title Opera Medica, Toulouse, 1636. Refutations of the scepticism of Sanchez were attempted by Ulrich Wild, Leipzig, 1664, and by Daniel Garinmack, Stettin, 1665. (See Dict. des Phil. Sciences.)