See also:FRANCOIS EUDES DE See also:MEZERAY (1610—1683)
, See also:French historian, was See also:born at See also:Rye near See also:Argentan, where his See also:father was a surgeon
.
He had two See also:brothers, one of whom, See also:Jean Eudes, was the founder of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the Eudists
.
See also:Francois studied at the university of See also:Caen, and completed his See also:education at the See also:college of Ste Barbe at See also:Paris
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His Histoire de See also:France depuis Faramond jusqu' d See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis le Juste (3 vols., 1643-1651), is a fairly accurate See also:summary of French and Latin See also:chronicles
.
See also:Mezeray was appointed historiographer of France, and in 1649, on the See also:death of See also:Vincent Voiture, was admitted to the See also:Academic Francaise
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His Abrege chronologique (3 vols., 1667—1668) went through fifteen See also:editions between 1668 and 1717; but he did not hesitate in this See also:work to attack the financiers, with the result that his See also:salary as historiographer was diminished by See also:Colbert
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Mezeray succeeded See also:Conrart as permanent secretary to the Academie Francaise (1675), and died at Paris on the loth of See also:July 1683
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He translated See also:Grotius's Traite de la See also:religion chretienne (164o), and a Histoire See also:des Turcs depuis 1612 jusqu'en 1649 (1650), which is an addition to a continuation of Chalcondyles
.
See See also:Daniel de Larroque, See also:Vie de Francois Eudes de Mezeray (172o) ; vol. xiii. of Causeries du lundi by Sainte-Beuve, and Levavasseur's See also:Notice sur See also:les trois freres: Jean Eudes, Francois Eudes, et See also:Charles Eudes (1855)
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