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CLAUDE CAPPERONNIER (1671-1744)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 289 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLAUDE See also:CAPPERONNIER (1671-1744)  , See also:French classical See also:scholar, the son of a See also:tanner, was See also:born at See also:Montdidier on the 1st of May 1671 . He studied at See also:Amiens and See also:Paris, and took orders in the See also:Church of See also:Rome, but devoted himself almost entirely to classical studies . He declined a professorship in the university of See also:Bale, and was afterwards appointed (1722) to the See also:Greek See also:chair in the See also:College de See also:France . He published an edition of See also:Quintilian (1725) and See also:left behind him at his See also:death an edition of the See also:ancient Latin Rhetoricians, which was published in 1756 . He furnished much material for See also:Robert See also:Estienne's See also:Thesaurus Linguae Latinae . His See also:nephew, See also:Jean See also:Capperonnier (1716-1775), his successor in the chair of Greek at the College de France, was also a distinguished scholar, and published valuable See also:editions of classical authors—See also:Caesar, See also:Anacreon, See also:Plautus, See also:Sophocles .

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