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See also:MARQUIS DE See also:CLAUDE DRIGON See also:MAGNY (1797-1879) , See also:French heraldic writer, was See also:born in See also:Paris . After being employed for some See also:time in the postal service, he devoted himself to the study of See also:heraldry and See also:genealogy, his See also:work in this direction being rewarded by See also:Pope See also:Gregory XVI. with a marquisate . He founded a French See also:college of heraldry, and wrote several See also:works on heraldry and genealogy, of which the most important were Archives nobiliaires universelles (1843) and Livre d' or de la noblesse de See also:France (1844-1852) . His two sons, Edouard Drigon and Achille Ludovice Drigon, respectively See also:comte and vicomte de See also:Magny, also wrote several works on heraldry . |
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