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Pierre Dupuy, engraving by Robert Nanteuil
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Pierre Dupuy

French historian and librarian
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Pierre Dupuy (born Nov. 27, 1582, Agen, Fr.—died Dec. 14, 1651, Paris) was a historian and librarian to King Louis XIV of France. He was the first to catalog the royal archives (Trésor des chartes) and, with his brother Jacques, the king’s library. Little is known of Dupuy’s life except that he travelled with his brothers all over France and amassed a collection of some 20,000 books and 1,200 manuscripts, many of great value, which...

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