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LOUIS DE BEAUFORT (d. 1795)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 587 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS DE See also:BEAUFORT (d. 1795)  , See also:French historian, of whose See also:life little is known . In 1738 he published at See also:Utrecht a . Dissertation sur l'incertitude See also:des cinq premiers siecles de l'histoire romaine, in which he showed what untrustworthy guides even the his-torians of highest repute, such as See also:Livy and See also:Dionysius of See also:Halicarnassus, were for that See also:period, and pointed out by what methods and by the aid of what documents truly scientific bases might be given to its See also:history . This was an ingenious plea, bold for its See also:time, against traditional history such as See also:Rollin was See also:writing at that very moment . A See also:German, See also:Christopher Saxius, endeavoured to refute it in a See also:series of articles published in vols. i.-iii. of the Miscellanea Liviensia . See also:Beaufort replied by some brief and ironical Remarques in the appendix to the second edition of his Dissertation (1750) . Beaufort also wrote an Histoire de Cesar Germanicus (See also:Leyden, 1761), and La Republique romaine, ou See also:plan See also:general de l'ancien gouvernement de See also:Rome (The See also:Hague, 1766, 2 vols. See also:quarto) . Though not a See also:scholar of the first See also:rank, Beaufort has at least the merit of having been a See also:pioneer in raising the question, afterwards elaborated by See also:Niebuhr, as to the credibility of See also:early See also:Roman history .

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