Honoré Caille, seigneur du Fourny (1630–1713) was a French
genealogist
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.
An examiner at the
Court of Accounts in Paris, he collected the papers of the noted genealogist
Père Anselme after his death in 1694, and in 1712 published a new edition of Father Anselm's great work, the ''Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, et des grands officiers de la couronne''.
After his death, this work was continued by
Father Angel of St. Rosalie (1655–1726) and
Father Simplicien (1683–1759), both
friar
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s, like Father Anselm, at the ''Couvent des Petits Pères'', a priory of the
Discalced Augustinians
The Order of Discalced Augustinians (; abbreviation: OAD) is a mendicant order that branched off from the Order of Saint Augustine as a reform movement.
History
During the Counter-Reformation, there was a special interest among the Augustinian ...
in Paris attached to the
Basilica of Our Lady of Victories.
French genealogists
1630 births
1713 deaths
French male non-fiction writers
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