Claude Fauchet (historian)

Claude Fauchet
Born3 July 1530
Paris
DiedJanuary 1602
Paris
OccupationPresident of the Cour des monnaies, historian, antiquarian, romance philologist, medievalist, translator
NationalityFrench
Literary movementRenaissance humanism
Notable worksRecueil de l'origine de la langue et poesie françoise (1581)
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Claude Fauchet, aged 51, engraving by Thomas de Leu.

Claude Fauchet (French pronunciation: [klod foʃɛ]; 3 July 1530 – January 1602) was a sixteenth-century French historian, antiquary, and pioneering romance philologist.[1] Fauchet published the earliest printed work of literary history in a vernacular language in Europe, the Recueil de l'origine de la langue et poësie françoise (1581).[2][3][4][5] He was a high-ranking official in the governments of Charles IX, Henri III, and Henri IV, serving as the president of the Cour des monnaies.

Claude Fauchet, aged 70, engraving by Thomas de Leu.
  1. ^ Espiner-Scott, Janet Girvan (1940). "Claude Fauchet and Romance Study". The Modern Language Review. 35 (2): 173–184. doi:10.2307/3717326. JSTOR 3717326.
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  3. ^ Saintsbury, George (1900–1904). History of Criticism. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: Blackwood. p. 135.
  4. ^ Darmsteter, Arsène; Hatzfeld, Adolphe (1883). Le Seizième siècle en France: Tableau de la littérature et de la langue. Paris: Ch. Delagrave. p. 75.
  5. ^ Bruder, Anton (2018). "Linguistic and Material Counterculturalism in the French Renaissance: Claude Fauchet's Recueil de l'origine de la langue et poësie françoise (1581)". Early Modern French Studies. 40 (2): 117–132. doi:10.1080/20563035.2018.1539372. S2CID 165220207.