NICOLAS DE HERBERAY

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• DES

DES ESSARTS (d. about 1557)  , French translator, was born in Picardy . He served in the artillery, and at the expressed desire of Francis I. he translated into French the first eight books of Amadis de Gaul (1540-1548) . The remaining books were translated by other authors . His other translations from the Spanish include L'Amant maltraite de sa mye (1539) ; Le Premier Livre de la chronique de dom Flores de Grece (1552); and L'Horloge des princes (1555) from Guevara . He also translated the works of Josephus (1557) . He died about 1557 . The Amadis de Gaul was translated into English by Anthony Munday in 1619 .