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Events from the year 1555 in France .
The House of Albret, which derived its name from the lordship (seigneurie) of Albret (Labrit), situated in the Landes, was one of the most powerful feudal families of France in the Middle Ages.
The Revue des deux Mondes is a monthly French-language literary, cultural and current affairs magazine that has been published in Paris since 1829.
Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, S.J. was a French Jesuit priest, traveller, and historian, often considered the first historian of New France. He had little interest for "a life of suffering and deprivation for the conversion of Indian souls", but "an eager curiosity concerning life".
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 high-ranking official in the governments of Charles IX, Henri III, and Henri IV, serving as the president of the Cour des monnaies.
Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval also named "l'élu de Poix" or sieur de Roberval son of an unknown mother and Bernard de La Rocque military and former seneschal of Carcassonne. He was a French officer, appointed viceroy of Canada by Francis I and led the first French colonial attempt in the Saint Laurent valley in the first half of the 16th century with the explorer Jacques Cartier.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lescar, in south-western France, was founded in the fifth century, and continued until 1790. It was originally part of the Province of Novempopulania, and Lescar held the seventh place among the cities. Its see was the Cathedral of the Assumption in Lescar, begun in 1120; the crypt of the cathedral was also the mausoleum of the family of Albret in the 16th century.
Hiesville is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy, north-western France. A small commune, Hiesville covers an area of just 4.03 km2 (1.56 sq mi). It is bounded by Boutteville to the north, Blosville to the west, Sainte-Marie-du-Mont to the east, and Vierville to the south, and lies several kilometres from the Normandy coast.
Guillaume Desautels (1529-1599) was a French poet of the sixteenth century associated with La Pléiade.
Philip Benedict is an American historian of the Protestant Reformation in Europe, currently holding the title of Professor Emeritus at the University of Geneva’s Institute for Reformation History.
Andreas Wechelus was a printer and bookseller active in Paris from 1554 to 1573 and in Frankfurt from 1573 to 1581.
Laurent Durand was an 18th-century French publisher active in the Age of Enlightenment. His shop was established rue Saint-Jacques under the sign Saint Landry & du griffon.
Francine Hérail is a French historian specializing in Japan. Former resident at the Maison franco-japonaise in Tokyo, she was professor at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales until 1981, then director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études until 1998.
André Chastagnol was a French historian, specializing in Latin epigraphy and literature.
The prix Broquette-Gonin was a former prize awarded by the Académie française.
François Lesure was a French librarian and musicologist.
François-Étienne de La Roche was a Genevan physician, naturalist, chemist, botanist and ichthyologist.
Eugénie Droz was a Swiss romance scholar, editor publisher and writer, originally from the Suisse Romande. She created the Librairie Droz, a publisher and seller of academic books, at Paris in 1924, moving the business to Geneva at the end of the war.
Events from the year 1593 in France
Pierre Rodrigue Brind'Amour, born in 1941 and died in January 1995, was a French-speaking Canadian philologist, professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Ottawa.
François II d'Allonville d'Oysonville was a lord of Oysonville and Montacher-Villegardin, Knight of the Ordre du roi, deputy of the nobility to the Estates General from 1560 to Orléans, and to the Estates General of 1588-1589 at Blois. He played a role in the Italian wars under Henry II and he was one of the Catholic leaders during the Wars of Religion, before rallying to Henri IV.
