Nicolas Faret (

Bourg-en-Bresse Bourg-en-Bresse (; ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. Located northeast of Lyon, it is the capital of the ancient Provinces of France, province of Bresse (). I ...

, 1596 – 8 September 1646) was a French statesman, writer, scholar and translator. He was born in Bourg-en-Bresse in about 1596 when the area was still part of the

Savoyard state The Savoyard state comprised the states ruled by the counts and dukes of Savoy from the Middle Ages to the formation of the Kingdom of Italy. Although it was an example of composite monarchy, it is a term applied to the polity by historians an ...

, but it came under the control of France in about 1601. It was after that date within the

Duchy of Burgundy The Duchy of Burgundy (; ; ) was a medieval and early modern feudal polity in north-western regions of historical Burgundy. It was a duchy, ruled by dukes of Burgundy. The Duchy belonged to the Kingdom of France, and was initially bordering th ...

. He translated Eutropius's ''Roman History'' (Paris, 1621, in-18).

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Gustave Vapereau Louis Gustave Vapereau (4 April 1819 – 18 April 1906) was a French writer and lexicographer famous primarily for his dictionaries, the ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'' and the ''Dictionnaire universel des littérateurs''. Biography ...

, ''Dictionnaire universel des littératures'', Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 765

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Faret, Nicolas 1590s births 1646 deaths People from the Province of Burgundy Writers from Bourg-en-Bresse Latin–French translators 17th-century French poets 17th-century French male writers French male poets 17th-century French translators Politicians from Bourg-en-Bresse