Claude Fauchet, French historian and author (died 1601)

Claude Fauchet (historian)

French official and historian (1530–1602)

Claude Fauchet was a sixteenth-century French historian, antiquary, and pioneering romance philologist. Fauchet published the earliest printed work of literary history in a vernacular language in Europe, the Recueil de l'origine de la langue et poësie françoise (1581). He was a…