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GABRIEL NAUDE (1600-1653)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 277 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GABRIEL See also:NAUDE (1600-1653)  , See also:French librarian and See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 2nd of See also:February 1600 . He studied See also:medicine at Paris and See also:Padua, and became physician to See also:Louis XIII . In 1629 he became librarian to See also:Cardinal Bagni at See also:Rome, and on Bagni's See also:death in 1641 librarian to Cardinal See also:Barberini . At the See also:desire of See also:Richelieu he began a wearisome controversy with the See also:Benedictines, denying See also:Gerson's authorship of De See also:Imitation Christi . Richelieu intended to make See also:Naude his librarian, and on his death Naude accepted a similar offer on the See also:part of See also:Mazarin, and for the next ten years devoted himself to bringing together from all parts of See also:Europe the See also:noble assemblage of books known as the Bibliotheque Mazarine . Mazarin's library was sold by the See also:parlement of Paris during the troubles of the See also:Fronde, and See also:Queen See also:Christina invited Naude to See also:Stockholm . He was not happy in See also:Sweden, and on Mazarin's See also:appeal that he should re-See also:form his scattered library Naude returned at once . But his See also:health was broken, and he died on the See also:journey at See also:Abbeville on the 30th of See also:July 1653 . The friend of Gui Patin, of See also:Pierre 277 Gassendi and all the liberal thinkers of his See also:time, Naude was no See also:mere bookworm; his books show traces of the See also:critical spirit which made him a worthy colleague of the humorists and scholars who prepared the way for the better known writers of the " siecle de Louis XIV." Including See also:works edited by him, a See also:list of ninety-two pieces is given in the Naudaeana . The See also:chief are Le Marfore, ou discours contre See also:les libelles (Paris, 162o), very rare, reprinted 1868; Instruction d la See also:France sur la verite de l'histoire See also:des Freres! de la Roze-Croix (1623, 1624), displaying their impostures; Apologie pour taus les grands personnages faussement soupconnez de magie (1625, 1652, 1669, 1712), See also:Pythagoras, See also:Socrates, See also:Thomas See also:Aquinas and See also:Solomon are among those defended; Advis pour See also:dresser une bibliotheque (1627, 1644, 1676; translated by J . See also:Evelyn, 1661), full of See also:sound and liberal views on librarianship; Addition a l'histoire de See also:Louys XI . (163o), this includes an See also:account of the origin of See also:printing; Bibliographia politica (See also:Venice, 1633, &c.; in French, 1642), a mere See also:essay of no See also:bibliographical value; De studio liberali syntagma (1632, 1654), a See also:practical See also:treatise found in most collections of directions for studies; De studio militari syntagma (1637), esteemed in its See also:day; Considerations politiques sur les coups d'etat (Rome [Paris], 1639; first edition rare, augmented by Dumay, 1752), this contains an See also:apology for the See also:massacre of St See also:Bartholomew; Biblioth .

Cordesianae Catalogus (1643), classified; Jugement de tout ce qui a ete imprime contre le Card . Mazarin (1649), Naude's best See also:

work, and one of the ablest defences of Mazarin; it is written in the form of a See also:dialogue between See also:Saint-Ange and Mascurat, and is usually known under the name of the latter .

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