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See also:HENRI DE [VALESIUS] See also:VALOIS (1603-1676) , See also:French See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the loth of See also:September 1603 . He was a See also:pupil of the See also:Jesuits at the See also:college of Clermont, then studied See also:law at See also:Bourges . He was called to the See also:bar in 1623, but before See also:long devoted himself entirely to literature . He had an extra-See also:ordinary memory and a thorough knowledge of the See also:classics, and to him we owe See also:editions of several of the See also:Greek historians, with excellent Latin See also:translations, the only See also:fault found with which is that they are too elegant: Polybii, Diodori See also:Siculi, A'icolai Damasceni, Dionysii Halicarnassii, See also:Appiani et Joannis Antiocheni excerpta (1634; See also:Henri de See also:Valois used for this edition a See also:manuscript coming from See also: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 See also:age, and nearly See also:blind, he married See also: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 See also:Father See also:Petau, Father See also:Sirmond and the See also:brothers See also:Dupuy, who turned his See also:attention towards See also:medieval studies . He was appointed historiographer in 166o . He undertook the task of See also:writing a See also:critical See also:history of See also:France, but did not get further than the deposition of Childeric III . (752) . He devoted, however, to this See also:period three See also:folio volumes (Gesta Francorum seu rerum francicarum torrid Tres, 1646–1658), which See also: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 See also: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 See also:work of the highest merit, which laid the See also:foundations of the scientific study of See also:historical See also:geography in France; but, like all the scholars of his age, he had no solid knowledge of See also:philology
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His last work was a See also:life of his See also:elder See also:brother (De Vita Henrici Valesii, 1677)
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