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François de Malherbe
François de Malherbe (1555 – 16 October 1628) was a French poet, critic, and translator.
Life.
He was born in Le-Locheur (near Caen, Normandie), to a family of standing, although the family's pedigree did not satisfy the heralds in terms of its claims to nobility pre-16th century. Francois the poet was the eldest son of another François de Malherbe, "conseiller du roi" in the magistracy of Caen. He himself was elaborately educated at Caen,
explained about the routes to reach these places, and offered to lead an expedition for the king.
Pierre-Olivier Malherbe may have been the author of a Malay language dictionary, which was added to François Martin de Vitré's work "La Description du premier voyage fait aux Indes orientales par les Français en l'an 1603" in 1609.
He is mentioned in the 1629 "Traité de navigation et des voyages de découvertes et conquêtes, principalement des François" by geographer Pierre Bergeron.
In Paris, he also met