About Nicolas Faret
Lived 1596 – 1646 (aged 49–50). Nicolas Faret was a French politician, translator and poet.
Nicolas Faret (Bourg-en-Bresse, 1596 – 8 September 1646) was a French statesman, writer, scholar and translator. He was born in Bourg-en-Bresse in about 1596 when the area was still part of the Savoyard state, but it came under the control of France in about 1601. It was after that date within the Duchy of Burgundy.
He translated Eutropius's Roman History (Paris, 1621, in-18).
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French writer (1600-1646)
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Nicolas Faret was born in 1596 in Bourg-en-Bresse.
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Nicolas Faret died on 8 September 1646 in Paris.
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Nicolas Faret was a politician, translator and poet.
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Nicolas Faret was French.
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