Contents
| |||||
| Decades: | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See also: | Other events of 1555 History of France • Timeline • Years | ||||
Events from the year 1555 in France .
| |||||
| Decades: | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See also: | Other events of 1555 History of France • Timeline • Years | ||||
Events from the year 1555 in France .
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Jean-François de La Harpe was a French playwright, writer and literary critic.
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.
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 the Sieur de Roberval, was a French officer who was appointed viceroy of Canada by Francis I. He led the first French colonial attempt in the Saint Laurent valley in the first half of the 16th century with the explorer Jacques Cartier.
Guillaume Desautels (1529-1599) was a French poet of the sixteenth century associated with La Pléiade.
Jacob Vernes was a Genevan theologian and Protestant pastor in Geneva, famous for his correspondence with Voltaire and Rousseau.
Marc-Michel Rey was an influential publisher in the United Provinces, who published many of the works of the French philosophes, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In his day, he was the largest and most important publisher in the French language in the United Provinces.
Jean-Louis de Boubers de Corbeville sometimes named Boubers the Younger was a French printer, publisher and bookseller who moved to the Liege area within the Holy Roman Empire. He was also characters founder, music publisher and paper producer. He became royal printer for the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels.
Joseph de La Porte, was an 18th-century French priest, literary critic, poet and playwright.
Andreas Wechelus was a printer and bookseller active in Paris from 1554 to 1573 and in Frankfurt from 1573 to 1581.
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.
The prix Broquette-Gonin was a former prize awarded by the Académie française.
François Lesure was a French librarian and musicologist.
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.
Paul-Alexis Mellet is a French early modern historian and expert in the political and religious ideas from early modernity. He is a professor at the University of Geneva and a member of the Institute of Reformation History. Formerly, he was a professor at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, and at the University of Tours.
Pierre Rodrigue Brind'Amour 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.
Jean V de Parthenay-L'Archevêque, or Larchevêque, Sieur de Soubise , was a Protestant French nobleman, last lord of Mouchamps, from the Parthenay-l'Archevêque family. His father, Jean IV de Parthenay, died before he was born. His mother was humanist Michelle de Saubonne. He married Antoinette d'Aubeterre, and their daughter and was Catherine de Parthenay, who later married René II, Viscount of Rohan.
François-Emmanuel Toulongeon or François Emmanuel d'Emskerque, vicomte de Toulongeon was a French politician and historian, deputy to the Estates General of 1789 and author of a Histoire de la Révolution de 1789.
