Quotes:Fauchet, Claude

Zirkoff, Boris

Fauchet, Claude. French magistrate and historian, b. in Paris, about 1529-30; d. about 1601. Very little is known of his early life. Lived at Marseilles and gathered a very valuable collection of books and manuscripts which were partially destroyed in a popular uprising. Was for a time secretary to the Cardinal of Toumon, ambassador to Italy, who sent him several times on missions to the French Court. His character and abilities were appreciated, and he became president of the Cour des Monnais. Engaged for many years in research into the antiquities of France. Need of money made him sell his position to pay his debts, 1599. At first ridiculed by Henry IV, he was later appointed historiographer. He proved himself to be an impartial historian, scrupulously careful; his works contain facts not found elsewhere. His chief literary production is: *Les Antiquitez Gauloises et Francoises . . . contenans les choses advenues en Gaule et en France, jusques en I’an sept cens cinquante et un, Paris, 1579, 2 Vols.; other volumes were added in 1599 and 1602. He also wrote a work entitled Origine des chevaliers, Paris, 1600, and translated Tacitus (1582).

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 11, p. 574