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| | PIERRE SEGUIER - LoveToKnow Article on PIERRE SEGUIER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | (1588-1672), chancellor of France, was born in Paris on the 28th of May 1588, of a famous legal family originating in Quercy. |
 | | His grandfather, Pierre Seguier (1504-1580), was president d mortier in the parlement of Paris from 1554 to 1576, and the chancellor's father, Jean Seguier, a seigneur d'Autry, was civil lieutenant of Paris at the time of his death in 1596. |
 | | The chancellor's great-grandson, Henri Charles du Cambout de Coislin, bishop of Metz, commissioned Bernard de Montfaucon, a learnedBenedictine of St Maur, to prepare a catalogue of the Greek MSS. |
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