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3 unusual facts about Henri Valois


Henri Valois

Valois took from it numerous previously unedited fragments of earlier historians, which he published in 1634: Polybii, Diodori Siculi, Nicolai Damasceni, Dionysii Halicarnassii, Appiani, Alexandri, Dionis et Ioannis antiocheni excerpta.

In 1673 he completed his book with Theodoret, Evagrius, and the excerpts from Philostorgius and Theodorus Lector: Socratis, Sozomeni, Theodoreti et Evagrii Historia ecclesiastica.

Valesius

Henricus Valesius, the Latinized classical form of Henri Valois, a French philologist; Valois is a corruption of Val d'Oise, "Oise River Valley"



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