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LELONG, JACQUES (1665–1721)

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LELONG, JACQUES (1665–1721) , See also:French bibliographer, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 19th of See also:April 1665. He was a See also:priest of the See also:Oratory, and was librarian to the See also:establishment of the See also:Order in Paris, where he spent his See also:life in seclusion. He died at Paris on the 13th of See also:August 1721. He first published a Bibliotheca sacra (1709), an See also:index of all the See also:editions of the See also:Bible, then a Bibliotheque historique de la See also:France (1719), a See also:volume of considerable See also:size, containing 17,487 items to which Lelong sometimes appends useful notes. His See also:work is far from See also:complete. He vainly hoped that his friend and successor See also:Father Desmolets, would continue it; but it was resumed by See also:Charles-See also:Marie Fevret de Fontette, a councillor of the See also:parlement of See also:Dijon, who spent fifteen years of his life and a See also:great See also:deal of See also:money in rewriting the Bibliotheque historique. The first two volumes (1768 and 1769) contained as many as 29,143 items. Fevret de Fontette died on the 16th of See also:February 1772, leaving the third volume almost finished. It appeared in 1772, thanks to Barbaud de La Bruyere, who later brought out the 4th and 5th volumes (1775 and 1778). 11.e. the three first books of the Historia Polonica of Vincentius (Kadlbek), See also:bishop of See also:Cracow (d. 1223), wrongly ascribed by See also:Lelewel to Matthaeus Cholewa, bishop of Cracow. See See also:Potthast, Bibliotheca hist. med. aev., s.v.

" Vincentius." In this new edition the Bibliotheque historique is a work of reference of the highest order; it is still of great value.

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