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7 unusual facts about Paul de Rapin


Clara Reeve

He made me read Rapin's History of England; the information it gave made amends for its dryness.

David Durand

His continuation of Paul de Rapin's History of England (1734) was the most successful of his works.

George Knapton

Kanpton assisted his brothers, John and Paul - who had succeeded to and extended their father's business - in the production of several publications including works by Thomas Birch and The History of England by Nicolas Tindal and Paul de Rapin.

Nicholas Conyngham Tindal

His great-grandfather, Rev Nicolas Tindal, was the translator and continuer of the History of England by Paul de Rapin — a seminal work in its day — and he was also the great great grandnephew of Dr Matthew Tindal, the deist and author of 'Christianity as Old as the Creation' (known as the 'deist's bible') and descendant of Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh.

Partwork

Between 1728 and 1732, Nicolas Tindal's English translation of Paul de Rapin's L'Histoire d'Angleterre (The History of England) was issued by a London printer in monthly parts.

Rapin

Paul de Rapin (1661–1725), a French historian writing under English patronage

Sir Samuel Barnardiston, 1st Baronet

According to an anecdote of Paul de Rapin, Barnardiston's prominence in the crowd of apprentices with distinctive haircuts on this occasion gave rise to the political use of the word Roundhead, when Queen Henrietta Maria called out “See what a handsome young Roundhead is there!”



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