About Roger Bontemps
Lived 1468 – 1540 (aged 71–72). Roger Bontemps was a French poet, priest and writer.
Roger de Collerye (–1540), nicknamed Roger Bontemps, was a priest and secretary of the Bishop of Auxerre. He was famous for his jovial personality, and presided over a convivial society at Auxerre, earning the facetious title the "Mad Abbot". He left some writings in prose and verse, which are known from 1536 and were reprinted in 1856 by Charles Héricault.
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Who was Roger Bontemps?
French poet
When was Roger Bontemps born?
Roger Bontemps was born in 1468 in Paris.
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Roger Bontemps died in 1540.
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Roger Bontemps was a poet, priest and writer.
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Roger Bontemps was French.
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