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André Duchesne
André Duchesne (; sometimes spelled "Du Chesne", Latinized "Andreas Chesneus", "Andreas Quercetanus", or "Andreas Querneus"; May 1584May 30, 1640) was a French geographer and historian, generally styled the father of French history.
Duchesne was born in L'Île-Bouchard. He was educated at Loudun and afterwards at Paris. From his earliest years he devoted himself to historical and geographical research, and his first work, "Egregiarum seu selectarum lectionum et antiquitatum liber", published in
, 1662). He did not derive much profit from this new favor, as he died in Paris on the 29th of June following, without his nomination having been sanctioned by the pope.
When very young Marca had shown an interest in the history of his native land. In 1617, at the age of twenty-three, he had set to work looking through archives, copying charters, and corresponding with the principal men of learning of his time, the brothers Dupuy, André Duchesne and Jean Besly, whom