About Jean Poldo d'Albenas
Lived 1512 – 1563 (aged 50–51). Jean Poldo d'Albenas was a French politician, magistrate, translator and historian.
Jean Poldo d’Albenas (1512–1563) was the King's Counsel in Nîmes (France), and contributed to the spread of Calvinism in his home town of Nîmes.
Work He produced, among other works, a Discours historial de l’antique et illustre cité de Nismes (1557) in French, which his contemporaries apparently found difficult to read; it is considered to contain useful research material for historians. He was also a lawyer at the Parliament of Toulouse.
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King’s Counsel in Nîmes (1512-1563)
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Jean Poldo d'Albenas was born in 1512 in Nîmes.
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Jean Poldo d'Albenas died in 1563.
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Jean Poldo d'Albenas was a politician, magistrate, translator and historian.
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Jean Poldo d'Albenas was French.
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