Claude Fauchet (1530-1602)

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Claude Fauchet (July 3rd 1530, Paris - January 1602), writer and historian French.

It is one of the first which were occupied to examine our former authors and our old chronicles. It followed the cardinal of Tournon in Italy (1554), obtained the load of first president of the Chambre of the currencies and was named by Henri IV Historiographe of France.

One has of him:

Gallic and French Antiquities until Clovis , 1579, which it continued from to in 987 ;
Of the Origin of the language and French poetry , 1581;
a Tacit translation of , 1582.

and some works, inter alia:

a Treated freedoms of the Church gallicane , joined together under the title of Works of Fauchet , 1610, 2 volumes in-4.

Its works extremely erudite, but are so badly written that Louis XIII, after having read them in its youth, conceived some, says one, of the aversion for any species of reading.

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