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FRANCOIS CLEMENT (1714-1793)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 490 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCOIS See also:CLEMENT (1714-1793)  , See also:French historian, was See also:born at Beze, near See also:Dijon, and was educated at the Jesuit See also:College at Dijon . At the See also:age of seventeen he entered the society of the See also:Benedictines of See also:Saint Maur, and worked with such intense application that at the age of twenty-five he was obliged to take a protracted See also:rest . He now resided in See also:Paris, where he wrote the 11 th and 1 2th vols. of the Histoire litteraire de la See also:France, and edited (with Dom Brial) the Izth and 13th vols. of the Recueil See also:des historiens des Gauls et de la France . The See also:king appointed him on the See also:committee which was engaged in See also:publishing charters, diplomas and other documents connected with French See also:history (see See also:Xavier Charmes, Le Comite des travaux historiques et scientifiques, vol. i., 1886, passim); and the See also:Academy of See also:Inscriptions See also:chose him as a member (1785) . Dom See also:Clement also revised the See also:Art de verifier See also:les See also:dates, edited in 1750 by Dom Clemencet . Three volumes with the Indexes appeared from 1783 to 1792 . He was engaged in preparing another See also:volume including the See also:period before the See also:Christian era, when he died suddenly of See also:apoplexy, at the age of sixty-nine . The See also:work was afterwards brought down from 1770 to 1827 by See also:Julien de Courcelles and Fortia d'See also:Urban .

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