Nicolas Rapin (1535–1608), a French magistrate, royal officer, translator, poet and satirist
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Paul de Rapin (1661–1725), a French historian writing under English patronage
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In addition to these dramas Beckingham wrote a poem on the death of Rowe, the dramatist; a second entitled Christ's Sufferings, translated from the Latin of Rapin, and dedicated to the Archbishop of York; and other minor poems.
He made me read Rapin's History of England; the information it gave made amends for its dryness.
Rapin was close to many writers of the period, including Joseph Justus Scaliger, Jacques-Auguste de Thou, Etienne Pasquier, Jacques Gillot and Agrippa d'Aubigné.