Claude Fauchet | |
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Born | 3 July 1530 Paris |
Died | January 1602 Paris |
Occupation | President of the Cour des monnaies, historian, antiquarian, romance philologist, medievalist, translator |
Nationality | French |
Literary movement | Renaissance humanism |
Notable works | Recueil de l'origine de la langue et poesie françoise (1581) |
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Claude Fauchet (French pronunciation: [klod foʃɛ]; 3 July 1530 – January 1602) was a sixteenth-century French historian, antiquary, and pioneering romance philologist.[1] Fauchet published the earliest printed work of literary history in a vernacular language in Europe, the Recueil de l'origine de la langue et poësie françoise (1581).[2][3][4][5] He was a high-ranking official in the governments of Charles IX, Henri III, and Henri IV, serving as the president of the Cour des monnaies.
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