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JACQUES AUGUSTE DE (tö), a French statesman and historian; born in Paris, Oct. 8, 1553. Henry IV. employed him in several important negotiations, and in 1593 made him his principal librarian. In 1595 he succeeded his uncle as chief-justice, and during the regency of Mary de Medici he was one of the directors-general of finance. His greatest literary labor was the composition in Latin of a voluminous "History of his own Times" (Historia sui Temporis), comprising the events from 1545 to 1607, of which the first part was made public in 1604. To this work, which is remarkable for its impartiality, he subjoined interesting "Memoirs" of his own life.
He died May 7, 1617.
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