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See also: scholar, was See also: born at Gainneville near Havre, on the 22nd of See also: February 1714, and died at See also: Paris on the 3rd of See also: July 1795
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His first publications were See also: anonymous: an Histoire See also: des revolutions de Genes jusqu'd la paix de 1748 (1750), and a series of Vies des orateurs grecs (1752)
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Elected a member of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres in 1759, he contribu ted an Histoire de Posthume empereur des Gaules (vol. See also: xxx., 176o) to the collected See also: works of that illustrious society, and also a Memoire sur l'etablissement de la See also: religion et de l'See also: empire de Mahomet (vol. xxxii., 1761–1763)
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After the close of the Seven Years' War he was sent to See also: search in the archives of See also: England for documents bearing upon the See also: history of See also: France, more particularly upon that of the French provinces which once belonged to England
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This See also: mission (1764–1766) was very fruitful in results; Brequigny brought back from it copies of about 7000 documents, which are now in the Bibliotheque Nationale
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A useful selection .of these documents was published (unfortunately without adequate critical treatment) by See also: Jean Jacques Champollion-See also: Figeac, under the title Lettres de rois, refines et autres personnages des See also: tours de France et d'Angleterre, depuis See also: Louis VII. jusqu'd
See also: Henri IV., tirees des archives de Londres See also: par Brequigny (collection of Documents inedits relatifs (i l'histoire de France, 2 vols., 1839, 1847)
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Brequigny himself See also: drew the material for many important studies from the See also: rich mine which he had thus exploited
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These were included in the collection of the See also: Academic des Inscriptions: Memoire sur See also: les diferends entre la France et dAngleterre sous le regne de See also: Charles le
See also: Bel (vol. xli.); Memoire sur la See also: vie de See also: Marie, reine de France, sceur de Henri VIII., roi d'Angleterre (vol. xlii.); four Menzoires pour servir d l'histoire de See also: Calais (vols. xliii. and 1.); and Memoire sur les negotiations touchant les projets de mariage d'See also: Elizabeth, reine d'Angleterre, d'abord avec le duc d'
See also: Anjou, ensuite avec le duc d'See also: Alencon, tous deux freres de Charles IX
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This last was read to the See also: Academy on the 22nd of See also: January 1793, the morrow of Louis XVI.'s execution
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Mean-while, Brequigny had taken See also: part in three See also: great and erudite works
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For the Recueil des ordonnances des rois de France he had prepared volumes x.-xiv., the preface to vol. xi. containing important researches into the French communes . To the Table chronologique des diplo"See also: mes, chartes, lettres, et actes imprimes concernant l'histoire de France he contributed three volumes in collaboration with Mouchet (1769—1783)
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Charged with the supervision of a large collection of documents bearing on French history, analogous to See also: Rymer's Foedera, he published the first See also: volume (Diplomat at
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Chartae, &c., 1791)
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The Revolution interrupted him in his collection of Memoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les lettres, et les arts des Chinois, begun in 1776 at the instance of the See also: minister See also: Bertin, when fifteen volumes had appeared
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See the note on Brequigny at the end of vol. i. of 'the Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions (1808) ; the Introduction to vol. iv. of the Table chronologique des diplo"mes (1836) ; Champollion-Figeac's preface to the Lettres des rois et reines; the Comite des travaux historiques, by X
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Charmes, vol. i. passim; N
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Oursel, Nouvelle biographic normande (1886); and the See also: Catalogue des manuscrits des collections Duchesne et Brequigny (in the Bibliotheque Nationale), by Rene Poupardin (1905)
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