Nicolas Rigault (Rigaltius; 1577-1654) was a French

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. Born at

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, he was educated by the

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. He was successively councillor of the

parlement A ''parlement'' (), under the French Ancien Régime, was a provincial appellate court of the Kingdom of France. In 1789, France had 13 parlements, the oldest and most important of which was the Parlement of Paris. While both the modern Fre ...

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, procurator general at Nancy, and

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of the province of

Toul Toul () is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. Geography Toul is between Commercy and Nancy, and the river Moselle and Canal de la Marne au Rhin. Climate Toul h ...

. He prepared annotated editions of Phaedrus,

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, Saint Cyprian, and also some mixed collections: ''Rei accipitrariæ scriptores'', 1612; ''Rei agrariae scriptores,'' 1613. He acted as librarian to

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 ...

. He used a

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Selected works

* 1596 : — «''Asini aurei asinus, sive De scaturigine onocrenes''» (1596; экземпляр парижской национальной библиотеки считается uniсum), : — «''Satyra Menippea somnium''», * 1600 — «''Biberii Curculionis parasiti mortualia, accessit Asinus...''» (более известная под заглавием III изд.: "Funus parasiticum" (П., 1601), "Rei agrariae scriptores" (1613)).

Sources

*''Nicolas Rigault'', in Marie-Nicolas Bouillet et Alexis Chassang (eds), ''Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de géographie'', 1878

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rigault, Nicolas 1577 births 1654 deaths Writers from Paris French classical scholars