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GAIGNIERES, See also:FRANCOIS See also:ROGER DE (1642-1715) , See also:French genealogist, See also:antiquary and See also:collector, was the son of Aime de Gaignieres, secretary to the See also:governor of See also:Burgundy, and was See also:born on the 3oth of See also:December 1642.. He became ecuyer (See also:esquire) to See also:Louis See also:Joseph, See also:duke of See also:Guise, and afterwards to Louis Joseph's aunt, See also:Marie of Guise, by whom in 1679 he was appointed governor of her principality of See also:Joinville. At an See also:early See also:age he began to make a collection of See also:original materials for See also:history generally, and, in particular, for that of the French See also:church and See also:court. He brought together a large collection of original letters and otherdocuments, together with portraits and prints, and had !copies made of a See also:great number of the most curious antiquarian See also:objects, such as See also:seals, tombstones, stained See also:glass, miniatures and See also:tapestry. In 1711 he presented the whole of his collections to the See also:king. The bulk of them is preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale at See also:Paris, and a certain number in the Bodleian library at See also:Oxford. See G. Duplessis, Roger de Gaignieres (Paris, 187o) ; L. See also:Delisle, See also:Cabinet See also:des manuscrits, t. i. pp. 335-356; H. Bouchot, See also:Les Portraits aux See also:crayon des X VI' et X VII' siecles (Paris, 1884) ; Ch. de Grandmaison, Gaignieres, ses correspondants et ses collections de portraits (See also:Niort, 1892).

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