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BRANTOME, PIERRE DE BOURDEILLE, SEIGNEUR AND ABBE DE (c. 1540-1614) , French historian and biographer, was born in Perigord about 1540. He was the third son of the baron de Bourdeille. His mother and his maternal grandmother were both attached to the court of Marguerite of Valois , and at her death in 154y he went to Paris, and later (1555) to Poitiers, to finish his education. He was given several benefices, the most important of which was the abbey of Brant6me (see below), but he had no inclination for an ecclesiastical career. At an early age he entered the prcfession of arms. He showed himself a brave soldier, and was brought into contact with most of the great
Scotland , where he accompanied Mary Stuart (then the widow of Francis I.); in England, where he saw Queen Elizabeth (1561, 1579); in Morocco (1564); and in Spain and Portugal. He fought on the galleys of the order of Malta, and accompanied his great
commander
reformers, and though he publicly separated himself from Protestantism it had a marked effect on his mind. A fall from his horse compelled him to retire into private life about 1589, and he spent his last years in writing his Memoirs of the illustrious men and women whom he had known. He died on the 15th of July 1614. Brantome left distinct orders that his manuscript
late
system
The edition of L. Lalanne has great merit, being the first to indicate the Spanish, Italian and French sources on which Brantome drew, but it did not utilize all the existing MSS. It was only after Lalanne's death that the earliest were obtained for the Bibliotheque Nationale. At Paris and at Chantilly
Conde ) all Brantome's original
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