Michel Félibien (14 September 1665 – 25 September 1719)Notice d'autorité personne
at BnF. was a French historian, who wrote a five-volume history of Paris, unfinished at his death, but completed by

Guy-Alexis Lobineau Guy Alexis Lobineau (1666–1727), better known as Dom Lobineau, was a Breton historian and Benedictine monk. He is best known for his history of Brittany, ''Histoire de Bretagne'' (1707). He also expanded and completed Michel Félibien Michel F� ...

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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He was the son of the French historian André Félibien and in 1683 became a Benedictine monk in the Congregation of Saint Maur (known for their high level of scholarship) at the

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in Paris. He is also known for his history of the

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, 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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