Michel Félibien (14 September 1665 – 25 September 1719)Notice d'autorité personne
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, who wrote a five-volume history of Paris, unfinished at his death, but completed by Guy-Alexis Lobineau and published in 1725.Some of the information in this article was translated from the equivalent article in the French Wikipedi
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André Félibien André Félibien (May 161911 June 1695), ''sieur des Avaux et de Javercy'', was a French chronicler of the arts and official court historian to Louis XIV of France. Biography Félibien was born at Chartres. At the age of fourteen he went to Pa ...

and in 1683 became a

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(known for their high level of scholarship) at the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris. He is also known for his history of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis, published in 1706.Félibien 1706. This book contains five engraved prints depicting objects from the treasury of the abbey, now mostly missing.

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Notes Sources * Félibien, Michel (1706). ''Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Saint-Denys en France''. Paris: Frederic Leonard
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. * Félibien, Michel (1725). ''Histoire de la ville de Paris'', completed and enlarged by Guy-Alexis Lobineau. Paris: Guillaume Desprez. Volume
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