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BLONDEL, DAVID (1591-1655)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 76 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BLONDEL, See also:DAVID (1591-1655) , See also:French See also:Protestant clergyman, was See also:born at Chalons-sur-See also:Marne in 1591, and died on the 6th of See also:April 1655. In 165o he succeeded G. J. See also:Vossius in the See also:professor-See also:ship of See also:history at See also:Amsterdam. His See also:works were very numerous; in some of them he showed a remarkable See also:critical See also:faculty, as in his dissertation on See also:Pope See also:Joan (1647, 1657), in which he came to the conclusion, now universally accepted, that the whole See also:story is a See also:mere myth. Considerable Protestant indignation was excited against him on See also:account of this See also:book.

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