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DAVID BLONDEL (1591-1655)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 76 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAVID
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BLONDEL (1591-1655)  ,
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French
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Protestant clergyman, was
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born at Chalons-sur-
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Marne in 1591, and died on the 6th of
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April 1655 . In 165o he succeeded G . J .
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Vossius in the
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professor-
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ship of
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history at
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Amsterdam . His
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works were very numerous; in some of them he showed a remarkable
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critical
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faculty, as in his dissertation on
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Pope
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Joan (1647, 1657), in which he came to the conclusion, now universally accepted, that the whole
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story is a
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mere myth . Considerable Protestant indignation was excited against him on
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account of this
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book .

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