Claude Bendier (died 1677) was a doctor of the
Sorbonne
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, canon of
Saint-Quentin, Aisne
Saint-Quentin (; pcd, Saint-Kintin; nl, label=older Dutch, Sint-Kwintens ) is a city in the Aisne department, Hauts-de-France, northern France. It has been identified as the ''Augusta Veromanduorum'' of antiquity. It is named after Saint Qu ...
, and a well-known French
bibliophile
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Born in Saint-Quentin in an unknown year, he always remained strongly attached to his native city, to which he bequeathed his 3000 volume library on the condition that it be open to the public twice a week. His ''Life of
St. Quentin'' was read in many primary schools during the
Restoration
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and the early reign of
Louis-Philippe
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As Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, h ...
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Works
*1671: ''La Défense des principales prérogatives de la ville et de l'église royale de S.-Quentin en Vermandois, par laquelle il est clairement justifié que cette ville est l'ancienne Auguste de Vermandois, et son église le siége primitif des évêques de ce diocèse''. St-Quentin: Le Queux
*1673: ''La vie du très illustre martyr, Saint-Quentin, apôtre et patron du
Vermandois
Vermandois was a French county that appeared in the Merovingian period. Its name derives from that of an ancient tribe, the Viromandui. In the 10th century, it was organised around two castellan domains: St Quentin ( Aisne) and Péronne ( Som ...
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**--do.--Quatrième édition. Saint-Quentin : Vve C. Le Queux, 1696 (later editions appeared in 1828, 1840 and 1842)
*1684: ''L'hérésie de
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détruite par sept preuves invincibles''. Saint-Quentin: Vve C. Le Queux
**--do.-- Saint-Quentin; et se vend à Paris: L. de Heuqueville, 1685
External links
Hommes de Saint-Quentin(in French)
French book and manuscript collectors
Year of birth missing
University of Paris alumni
1677 deaths
17th-century French writers
17th-century French male writers
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