Florent Chrestien (January 26, 1541 - October 3, 1596) was a French satirist and Latin poet. January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events The first official translation of the entire Bible in Swedish February 12 - Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile. ... October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events February 5 - 26 catholics crucified in Nagasaki, Japan. ...

Chrestien was the son of Guillaume Chrestien, an eminent French physician and writer on physiology, was born at Orleans. A pupil of Henri Estienne, the Hellenist, at an early age he was appointed tutor to Henry of Navarre, afterwards Henry IV, who made him his librarian. Brought up as a Calvinist, he became a convert to Catholicism. He was the author of many good translations from the Greek into Latin verse,amongst others, of versions of the Hero and Learner attributed to Musaeus, and of many epigrams from the Anthology. In his translations into French, among which are remarked those of Buchanans Jephth (1567), and of Oppian De Venatione (1575), he is not so happy, being rather to be praised for fidelity to his original than for excellence of style. His principal claim to a place among memorable satirists is as one of the authors of the Satire Ménippée, the famous pasquinade in the interest of his old pupil, Henry IV., in which the harangue put into the mouth of cardinal de Pelv is usually attributed to him. This article is about Orléans, France; for other meanings see Orleans (disambiguation). ... Henry Estienne, also known as Stephens or Stephanus, is the name of two 16th-century printers of Paris. ... Henry IV (French: Henri IV; December 13, 1553–May 14, 1610), was the first of the Bourbon kings of France, reigning from 1589 until his death. ... In an unadorned church, the 17th century congregation stands to hear the sermon. ... This article considers Catholicism in the broadest ecclesiastical sense. ... The Satire Ménippée or La Satyre Ménippée de la vertu du Catholicon dEspagne (written in 1593, published in Tours in 1594) was a political and satirical work (in French) in prose and verse which criticized the excesses of the Catholic League and Spanish pretensions during...

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