Charles de Bourgueville

Charles de Bourgueville, sior of Arm , born with Caen the March 5th 1504 and died in Caen the November 5th 1593, is a Norman Historien .

Charles de Bourgueville was born in a family established in Caen since. His/her father, Jean de Bourgueville was one of two lawyers of the king in Présidial of Caen. Having studied in Caen with the college of Wood, it is named general lieutenant of the Viscount of Caen in 1533. In 1541, it receives the load of general lieutenant of the baillif of Caen. In 1541, it resigns its load in favor of its nephew Jean Vauquelin of Fresnaye to devote itself entirely to the humanities to the culture of which it had never ceased being devoted in the middle of his Tout businesses young person, it had been several times crowned at the contests of the Palinod, first of the Bay-tree in 1532 in 1535, first of Estoile and first of the Bookmark in 1534.

Into 1547, it translated Darès without realizing trickery.

It author of historical works on the Normandy, of which Research and antiquitez of the province of Neustrie . Edouard Frère pays, in his Manuel of the Norman Bibliographer , that, for a reason now unknown, the family of the author made destroy, after the death of this last, a great number of specimens “so that in few years, it became of an extreme scarcity. ” With, two reprintings appeared reproducing the date, the address and the Colophon S of the edition of 1588, one due to Pierre-François Doublet (1705), the other with Pierre Chalopin (towards 1750).

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