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Amyot, Jacques

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Grand-almoner of France and bishop of Auxerre; was of humble birth; was tutor of Charles, who appointed him grand-almoner; he was the translator, among other works, of Plutarch into French, which remains to-day one of the finest monuments of the old literature of France, it was much esteemed by Montaigne (1513-1593).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Amyot, Jacques'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​a/amyot-jacques.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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