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Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French educator and courtier (died 1650)

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Claude Favre de Vaugelas

Savoyard grammarian and man of letters

Claude Favre de Vaugelas was a Savoyard grammarian and man of letters. Although a lifelong courtier, Claude Favre was widely known by the name of one of the landed estates he owned as seigneur of Vaugelas and baron of Peroges.
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January 6

Day of the year

January 6 is the sixth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 359 days remain until the end of the year.
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