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CHARPENTIER, FRANCOIS (1620-1702) , French archaeologist and man of letters, was born in Paris on the 15th of February 162o. He was intended for the bar, but was employed by Colbert, who had determined on the foundation of a French East
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series of medals that commemorate the principal events of the age of Louis XIV. Charpentier, who was long in receipt of a pension of 1200 livres from Colbert, was erudite and ingenious, but he was always heavy and common-place. His other works include a Vie de Socrate (165o), a translation
CHARRI$RE, AGNES ISABELLE EMILIE DE (1740-1805), Swiss author, was Dutch by birth
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Her letters to Constant were printed in the Revue Suisse (April 1844), her Lettres-Memoires by E. H. Gaullieur in the same review in 1857, and all the available material is utilized in a monograph on her and her work
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