Adrien de Valois
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Adrien de Valois
by Claude Duflos
by Claude Duflos
Adrien de Valois, sometimes Adrien Valois, lord of La Mare (Latin: Hadrianus Valesius; 14 January 1607 in Paris – 2 July 1692), was a French historian, historiographer and poet.
Biography
Brother of Henri Valois, he followed his example and devoted himself to the history of France. He was appointed historiographer of the king in 1664.
His son, Charles de Valois de La Mare (1671-1747), member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres as a pupil in 1705, associate in 1711 and pensionnaire he published under the title of Valesiana a collection of historical and critical remarks of his father, and researches on the Amphictyons and on the sacred wars of Greece.
Works
- Rerum Francicarum usque ad Chlotharii senioris mortem (1646)
- Gesta Francorum (1658)
- Notitia Galliarum, ordine litterarum digesta, in qua situs, gentes, opida, portus, castella, vici, montes, silvae, maria, flumina... pagi provinciaeque Galliae illustrantur ; locorum antiquitates, varia eorum nomina, vetera ac nova, episcopatuum ac monasteriorum origines, aliaque ad historiam francicam pertinentia notantur ; geographi et historici graeci, romani ac nostri explicantur et emendantur (1675). Etymological and topographical lexicon of proper names of places, rivers, mountains, forests of France listed in ancient authors (Caesar, Ptolemy, Strabo, etc.), in Merovingian chroniclers (Gregory of Tours or Fredegar), in the Lives of Saints or in medieval texts such as the Chronicle of Suger.
- De vita Henrici Valesii, historiographi regii liber (1677)
- Valesiana ou Les pensées critiques historiques et morales, et les poésies latines de Monsieur de Valois (1694)
