Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt [SEP] place of death
Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt
Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt (5 April 1606, Châlons-en-Champagne – 17 November 1664, Paris) was a French translator of the Greek and Latin classics into French and a member of the Académie française.
Biography.
Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt was born into a Protestant family; his father Paul Perrot (de la Salle) converted during his studies at Oxford, and his mother, Anne des Forges, was the daughter of a Protestant. Perrot d’Ablancourt himself renounced his religious beliefs at one stage,
- September 2 – Antoine de Laloubère, French Jesuit mathematician (b. 1600)
- October 31 – William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Dutch stadtholder (b. 1613)
- November 2 – George Ghica, Prince of Moldavia and Wallachia (b. 1600)
- November 17 – Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt, Translator (b. 1606)
- November 18 – Miklós Zrínyi, Croatian and Hungarian military leader, statesman (b. 1620)
- December 15 – Dietrich Reinkingk, German lawyer and politician (b.