Claude Fauchet was a sixteenth-century French historian, antiquary, and pioneering romance philologist. 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). 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, French historian and author (died 1601)
On July 3, in the year 1530, Claude Fauchet, French historian and author (died 1601). This event is recorded as a Notable Births event in the history of July 3, one of 376 recorded events on this date across all of history.
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- This event took place on July 3, 1530 (AD era).
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