the seigneur et abbé de Brantôme, was a French memoirist, soldier and biographer. Born at Bourdeilles in the Périgord, Brantôme was the third son of the...

French magistrate and man of letters. He wrote many biographical notices (Brantôme, (1823); Madame de Maintenon, (1828); Jean Ier, (1844), in-8°) and mostly...