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    Jacques Amyot (French: [amjo]; 30 October 1513 – 6 February 1593), French Renaissance bishop, scholar, writer and translator, was born of poor parents...
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  • Jacques Amyot CQ (13 November 1924 – 7 September 2018) was a Canadian swimmer from Quebec. As a long distance swimmer, besides holding 50 records in Quebec...
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    dies at the age of 87". WalesOnline. Retrieved 27 September 2023. "Jacques Amyot". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 23 July 2024. Bose, Anjali...
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    Ramsay. The novel Paul et Virginie by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre echoes the same story. Jacques Amyot's French translation is perhaps better...
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  • Olympic gold medalist in Canoe racing Geneviève Amyot (1945–2000), Franco-Canadian poet and novelist Jacques Amyot (1513–1593), French Renaissance writer and...
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    Aemilius Paulus1 Themistocles and Camillus Translators and editors Jacques Amyot Arthur Hugh Clough John Dryden Philemon Holland Thomas North 1 Comparison...
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    1510-1520-1572), composer of the Renaissance (probably born in Melun) Jacques Amyot (1513–1593), writer Chimène Badi (1982–), singer Samir Beloufa (1979–)...
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    North's translations of most of the Lives, based on the French version by Jacques Amyot, preceded Dryden's translation mentioned above. These translations are...
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  • France semi-finals in 1983 and 1985. However, presidents Jacques Amyot, Roger Deschodt and Jacques Dewailly all struggled to compete with the top teams in...
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    women's rights activist, appointed 1985 Jacques Villeneuve OQ, racing driver, appointed 1998 Jacques Amyot CQ, long-distance swimmer, appointed 2001...
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    Henry II are masterpieces of the binder's art. Under librarianship of Jacques Amyot, the collection was transferred to Paris and then relocated on several...
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    Aemilius Paulus1 Themistocles and Camillus Translators and editors Jacques Amyot Arthur Hugh Clough John Dryden Philemon Holland Thomas North 1 Comparison...
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    Aemilius Paulus1 Themistocles and Camillus Translators and editors Jacques Amyot Arthur Hugh Clough John Dryden Philemon Holland Thomas North 1 Comparison...
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    Œuvres Morales (Moral works) into French had just been published by Jacques Amyot, Montaigne began to compose his essays in 1572; the first edition, entitled...
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    Aemilius Paulus1 Themistocles and Camillus Translators and editors Jacques Amyot Arthur Hugh Clough John Dryden Philemon Holland Thomas North 1 Comparison...
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    Plutarch is almost as good in a translation as in the original." Jacques Amyot's translations brought Plutarch's works to Western Europe. He went to...
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  • Pauline Index, an early version of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Jacques Amyot (translator) Daphnis et Chloë, from Longus' Daphnis and Chloe Vies des...
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  • translation of Plutarch in 1580, basing it on the French version by Jacques Amyot. The first edition was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, and was followed...
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  • translator, teacher Pentti Aalto – translator of the Kural Étienne Aignan Jacques Amyot – produced a famous version of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, later rendered...
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    Gerard Walter, editor of Plutarch's Parallel Lives; translation by Jacques Amyot, La Pléïade volume n°43, 1967 Georges Dumézil, La religion romaine archaïque...
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    been discovered. It was first translated into French by the celebrated Jacques Amyot in 1547. It was first translated into English in 1569 by Thomas Underdown...
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    and New York: Longman, 1998. ISBN 0-582-08241-2. Plazenet, Laurence. "Jacques Amyot and the Greek Novel". In The Classical Heritage in France. Edited by...
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  • Gutenberg Plutarch. Lives . Trans. John Dryden – via Wikisource. (print: Jacques Amyot and Thomas North (tr.), Plutarch, Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans...
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  • 1585 – Edmund Plowden, English lawyer and scholar (b. 1518) 1593 – Jacques Amyot, French author and translator (b. 1513) 1593 – Emperor Ōgimachi of Japan...
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  • in May 1990, she was teaching English as an assistant at the Lycée Jacques Amyot in Auxerre, and had been due to finish a week after her disappearance...
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  • 1559-1560 : Charles d'Humières (died 1571), Bishop of Bayeux. 1560-1591 : Jacques Amyot (1513-1593), Bishop of Auxerre in 1570. 1591-1606 : Renaud de Beaune...
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  • In 1559, Plutarch's Parallel Lives were translated into French by Jacques Amyot, whose work was in turn translated into English by Sir Thomas North...
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    arrangement and elegant style; John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, and Jacques Amyot, a French Renaissance writer and translator, regarded Demosthenes as...
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  • de Sainte-Marthe (1512–1555) Thomas Sébillet (c.1512–1589) Jacques Amyot (1513–1593) Jacques Peletier du Mans (1517–1582) Théodore de Bèze (1519–1605)...
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    Yale University Press, 2008. ISBN 0-300-11557-1. Plazenet, Laurence. "Jacques Amyot and the Greek Novel". In The Classical Heritage in France. Edited by...
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