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LABOUREUR

Volume 6 · 128 words · 1778 Edition

(John le), almoner to the king of France, and prior of Juvigne, was born at Montmorency near Paris in 1623. At the age of 18, he distinguished himself by publishing "A collection of the monuments of illustrious persons buried in the church of the Celestines at Paris, with their eulogies, genealogies, arms, and mottoes," 4to. He afterwards published an excellent edition of The Memoirs of Michael de Castelnau, with several other genealogical histories; and died in 1675.β€”He had a brother, Lewis le Laboureur, bailiff of Montmorency, author of several pieces of of poetry; and an uncle, Dom. Claude le Laboureux, provost of the abbey of L'isle Barbe, of which abbey he wrote a history, and published notes and corrections upon the breviary of Lyons, with some other things.