Gabriel Dugrès ('' fl''. 1643) was a French

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He was born at

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, and alludes obscurely to his origin in his ''Life of Richelieu'', where, after stating that he came of a good family of

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, he says that his paternal uncle lived at the French court together with other relations, the MM. les Botrus, who were greatly favoured by the queen during

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's ascendency over

Louis XIII Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown ...

. Obliged to quit France on account of his religion in 1631, he came to Cambridge, where he gave lessons in French, and by the liberality of his pupils was enabled to publish his ''Breve et Accuratum Grammaticæ Gallicæ Compendium, in quo superflua rescinduntur & necessaria non omittuntur'', octavo, Cambridge, 1636. Three years later he was teaching at Oxford, as appears from his ''Dialogi Gallico-Anglico-Latini'', octavo, Oxford, 1639. Some of these dialogues are very amusing as giving a picture of the mode of living and manners of our forefathers. A second edition, enlarged, with ''Regulæ Pronunciandi, ut et Verborum Gallicorum Paradigmata'', appeared octavo, Oxford, 1652; a third, without the additions, was issued duodecimo, Oxford, 1660. Dugrès was also author of ''Jean Arman Du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu and Peere of France; his Life, &c.'', octavo, London, 1643, which, although written, as he says, with "a ruffe pen", is an interesting tract. It was followed by a translation "out of the French copie" of ''The Will and Legacies of Cardinal Richelieu … together with certain instructions which he left the French King. Also some remarkable passages that hath happened in France since the death of the said Cardinal'', quarto, London, 1643.

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;Attribution *; Endnotes: **Prefaces to Works cited above, which correct the account of Dugrès given in Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), iii. 184. {{DEFAULTSORT:Dugres, Gabriel Year of birth missing Year of death missing People from Saumur 17th-century French people Huguenots Grammarians from France Linguists from France Academics of the University of Cambridge