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Joseph Scaliger
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Joseph Justus Scaliger.
France, Geneva, and back to France
Details of his life during this period appear in the Lettres françaises inédites de Joseph Scaliger, edited by Tamizey de Larroque (Agen, 1881). He moved constantly through Poitou and the Limousin as the civil war required, occasionally taking his turn as a guard and on at least one occasion trailing a pike on an expedition against the Leaguers, with no access to libraries and frequently separated from his own books. He had, however, what few contemporary scholars possessed: leisure and freedom from financial cares.