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Charles-Jean-François Hénault
Charles-Jean-François Hénault (8 February 1685 – 24 November 1770) was a French writer and historian.
Life and career.
Life and career Early years.
Hénault was born in Paris. His father, René Jean Rémy Hénault de Cantobre (1648–1737) a farmer-general of taxes, "Ferme générale", was a man of literary tastes, and young Hénault obtained a good education at the Jesuit college, Lycée Louis-le-Grand. His mother was
- 14 March – Nicolas-Charles-Joseph Trublet, clergyman and moralist (born 1697)
- 25 April – Jean-Antoine Nollet clergyman and physicist (born 1700)
- 30 May – François Boucher, painter (born 1703)
- 3 August – Guillaume-François Rouelle, chemist and apothecary (born 1703)
- 28 November – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, historian (born 1685)
- 15 December – Pierre-Joseph Alary, ecclesiastic and writer (born 1689)
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