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HENRI DE [VALESIUS] VALOIS (1603-1676)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 865 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRI DE [VALESIUS] VALOIS (1603-1676)  , French scholar, was born at Paris on the loth of September 1603 . He was a pupil of the
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Jesuits at the college of Clermont, then studied law at
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Bourges . He was called to the bar in 1623, but before long devoted himself entirely to literature . He had an extra-ordinary memory and a thorough knowledge of the
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classics, and to him we owe
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editions of several of the Greek historians, with excellent Latin
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translations, the only fault found with which is that they are too elegant: Polybii, Diodori
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Siculi, A'icolai Damasceni, Dionysii Halicarnassii, Appiani et Joannis Antiocheni excerpta (1634;
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Henri de Valois used for this edition a
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manuscript coming from Cyprus, which had been acquired by Peiresc); Ammiani Marcellini rerum gestarum libri 18 (1636); Easebii ecclesiastica historia, et vita imperatoris Constantini, gracce et latine (1659); Socratis, Sozomeni, Theodoreti et Evagrii Historia ecclesiastica (1668-1673) . When almost sixty years of age, and nearly blind, he married
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Marguerite Chesneau (1664), and had by her four sons and three daughters He died in Paris on the 7th of May 1676 . His brothel, ADRIEN DE VALOIS (1607-1692), was also a well-known scholar . He made the acquaintance of
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Father Petau, Father Sirmond and the brothers Dupuy, who turned his attention towards
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medieval studies . He was appointed historiographer in 166o . He undertook the task of writing a critical
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history of France, but did not get further than the deposition of Childeric III . (752) . He devoted, however, to this period three folio volumes (Gesta Francorum seu rerum francicarum torrid Tres, 1646–1658), which form a critical commentary of much value, and in many points new, on the chroniclers of the Merovingian age . His study on the palaces constructed by the Merovingian kings (De basilicis quas primi Francorum reges condiderunt, 1658–166o) is noteworthy in this connexion .

In 1675 appeared his Notitia Galliarum ordine lilterarzzzn digester, a

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work of the highest merit, which laid the
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foundations of the scientific study of
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historical geography in France; but, like all the scholars of his age, he had no solid knowledge of
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philology . His last work was a
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life of his elder
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brother (De Vita Henrici Valesii, 1677) . Adrien's son, CHARLES DE VALOIS (1671-1747), was a distinguished numismatist, and formed a
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fine collection of medals, chiefly
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Roman . He entered at an early age the Academie
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des Inscriplions et Belles Lettres, where he became first a pupil (1705), then an associate (1714) and finally a pensionnaire (1722) . He published little; we know, however, an Histoire des Amphictyons by him . His best work, the Valesiana (1694), was inspired by filial affection; in it he collected a number of historical and critical observations, anecdotes and Latin poems of his father . His Eloge, by Freret, is in the Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions, vol. xxi. p .

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