Louis Giry
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Louis Giry (8 February 1596 – 28 July 1665) was a French lawyer, translator and writer.
Biography
Born in Paris in 1595, Louis Giry was a French lawyer and was one of the first members of the Académie française.[1] He served as the general counsel for the depreciation chamber and the freeholds in the Paris Parliament. He also became part of the Privy Council of Mazarin.
Giry died in 1665 at age 70.[2] He was the father of Francois Giry, noted for his commentary of the Rule of Saint Francois de Paule.[3]
Works
Giry's published works include Les verifons fuivantes, la Pierre de touche which was a translation of Trajano Boccalini's original.[4] He translated Tertullian's Apology and several other works[2] such as Plato's Crito and Apology[4] and Saint Augustine's La Cite de Dieu.
References
- ^ Fabre, Antonin (1890). Chapelain Et Nos Deux Premieres Academies (in French). Paris: Perrin et Cie. p. 3.
- ^ a b Platts, John (1826). A Universal Biography: 3d series. [15th-16th cent.
- ^ Whitmore, P. J. S. (1967). The Order of Minims in Seventeenth-Century France. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. p. 77. ISBN 978-94-010-3491-3.
- ^ a b P, M. (1671). Relation contenant l'histoire de l'Académie Françoise, par M. P[ellisson Fontanier]. Seconde edition, jouxte la copie, imprimée à Paris (in French). Paris: Augustin Corbe. p. 235.
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