La vie de Messire Jacques Auguste de Thou Chevalier Conseiller du Roy en ses conseils d'estat ... traduite du Latin, [ca. 1620].

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La vie de Messire Jacques Auguste de Thou Chevalier Conseiller du Roy en ses conseils d'estat ... traduite du Latin, [ca. 1620].

Anonymous MS translation, apparently unpublished. Latin version published in 1620; first French translation published in 1711. Followed by "Apologie pour l'histoire de Mons. le president de Thou 1620," in a later hand [ca. 1720].

1 v. (85 f.) ; 37 x 24 cm.

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Thou, Jacques-Auguste de, 1553-1617

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French lawyer, magistrate and historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Isaac Casaubon in London, 1611 Aug. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572452 Jacques Auguste de Thou was a French writer, historian, statesman, and a principal architect of the Edict of Nantes and signer of the Treaty of Loudun in 1616. His political offices included Counsellor of State and Director of Finances. He served as the head of the Royal Library ca. 1591. ...