André Duchesne

André Duchesne (sometimes you Chesne, Latinized Chesneus Andreas, Andreas Andreas Quercetanus or Querneus, MAY 1584 L' Ile- Bouchard, † May 30, 1640 in Paris) was a French geographer and historian. He is generally regarded as the father of French history.

Duchesne studied in Loudun and later in Paris. His first work was Egregiarum seu Selectarum Lectionum Antiquitatum et liber, which was published in his 17 years. The age of 22 he translated Juvenal. He benefited from the support of Cardinal Richelieu, who came from the same region as he, through whose influence he was appointed royal historiographer and geographer. He died in 1640, after he had come on the road from Paris to his country house in Verrières under a car.

The work Duchesnes are many and varied. In addition to his publications, he left more than 100 folio volumes with handwritten notes that are kept in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

• Les Antiques et recherches de la grandeur et majesté des rois de France ( Paris 1609)
• Les Antiques et recherches des villes, châteaux, & c. , De toute la France (Paris 1609)
• Histoire d' Angleterre, d' Ecosse et d' Irlande (Paris 1614)
• Bibliothèque des auteurs qui ont écrit l' histoire et la topography de la France ( 1618)
• Histoire des Papes jusqu'à Paul V ( Paris 1619)
• Histoire des rois, Dukes, et comtes de Bourgogne (1619-1628, two folio volumes )
• Historiae Scriptores Normanorum antiqui (1619, folio, today the only source for some of the texts included here )
• Historiae Francorum Scriptores (5 folio volumes, 1636-1649 ). This work should include 24 volumes and include the narrative sources for French history of the Middle Ages. Only two volumes were published by the author, three more of his son, the rest remained unfinished.

In addition, Duchesne published a large number of family histories and genealogies of the nobility, of which applies to the house of Montmorency as the best. In addition, he edited the works of Abelard (1616 ), Alain Chartier ( 1617) and Alcuin, and the letters of Étienne Pasquier ( 1619).

Some of his most important work was his only son François Duchesne (1616-1693) continued, which was also his successor as royal historiographer. Two works André Duchesnes, the Histoire des cardinaux français ( 2 volumes, 1660-1666 ) and the Histoire des gardes et chanceliers of sceaux de France ( 1630) were first published by François.