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3 unusual facts about Guillaume Desautels


Guillaume Desautels

The Catholic knights won the field and thus saved Cluny, which had been (until St. Peter's in Rome just recently built) the greatest church in Western Christendom from the hands of the Protestants — only to be destroyed 200 years later by the republican mobs of the French Revolution.

While he too wrote in vernacular French (rather than Latin), he is known for championing the use of Old French in prose and poetry and was against replacing it with a more "manufactured" orthography.

Prévost, Michel; Roman d'Amat, J. Balteau (1939) Dictionnaire de biographie française, Vol.



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