Claude-François-Xavier Millot (5 March 1726,

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) was a French churchman and historian.

Biography

Whilst still young Millot entered the

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order, teaching in many of their collèges, such as that at

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where he taught rhetoric. Expelled for praising

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, he left the Jesuits. Made grand-vicar by the

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, Millot wrote historical accounts and in 1768 received a chair in history at the collège de la Noblesse, founded at

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by the marquis of Felino. Received into the

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in 1777, he was made

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to the

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in 1778.

Works

* ''Éléments de l'histoire de France, depuis

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jusqu'à

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'' (1767–1769) * ''Élémens de l'histoire d'

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, depuis son origine sous les Romains, jusqu'au regne de

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.'' Paris, Durand, 1769. Trois volumes in-12, t. I : (faux-titre, mention d'éditeur, titre) bl. LI, bl. (introduction, table) 454, (approbation, privilège, errata) bl. (suite du privilège) bl.p., t. II : (faux-titre, mention d'éditeur, titre) bl. XII, 480, (errata) bl.p., t. III : (faux-titre) bl. (titre) bl. XII, 352, (errata) bl.p. * ''Éléments d'histoire générale ancienne et moderne'' (1772–1783) * ''Histoire littéraire des

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s'' (1774) * ''Mémoires politiques et militaires pour servir à l'histoire de

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et de

'' (1777)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Millot, Claude-Francois-Xavier 1726 births 1785 deaths People from Doubs 18th-century French historians 18th-century French Jesuits Members of the Académie Française Former Jesuits French male non-fiction writers