Charles Clémencet (17035 August 1778) was a French

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historian. He was born in Painblanc, in present-day

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, and was one of the authors who helped complete the great chronological work (the usual short form of a long title). He also wrote part of the monumental ''

Histoire littéraire de la France ''Histoire littéraire de la France'' is an enormous history of French literature initiated in 1733 by Dom Rivet and the Benedictines of St. Maur. It was abandoned in 1763 after the publication of volume XII. In 1814, members of the Académie d ...

'', and the history of the abbey of

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. He died in Paris in 1778.

Main publications

*1750: ''L'Art de vérifier les dates des faits historiques, des chartes, des chroniques et autres anciens monuments, depuis la naissance de Notre-Seigneur, par le moyen d'une table chronologique'', with

Maurus Dantine Maurus Dantine (1688–1746) was a Belgian Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur and chronologist. Biography He was born at Gonrieux near Namur on 1 April 1688. Like many of the members of his congregation he was one of the so-called Ap ...

*1753: *1755–1757: (10 volumes) *1758: *1759: *1760: (3 volumes) *1773: ;Collaborations *1733–1763: (12 volumes) *1847: , tomes XII-XIII

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