, Or Giudo Fabricius Boderianus, was born of a noble family in the
, Or Giudo Fabricius Boderianus, was born of a noble family in the
territory of Boderie, in Lower Normandy, in 1541. He
acquired great knowledge in the Oriental languages, and
had, with his brother Nicholas, the principal part in the
edition of the Polyglott of Antwerp, though that honour is
usually given to the learned Arias Montanus. Le Fevre
was secretary to the duke d'Alengon, brother of king
Henry 111. and composed several works in French, verse
and prose, but in a style so vulgar and confused, that none
of them are read. He died 1598. Nicholas le Fevre de
la Boderie, his brother, was also very ingenious; he died
after 1605. Anthony le Fevre de la Boderie, another
brother, distinguished himself in the reigns of Henry IV.
and Louis XIII. by his skill in negociations, and his embassies to Rome, the Low Countries, and England, where
he was loaded with presents. He discovered the marechal
de Biron’s correspondence at Brussels, and rendered important services to Henry IV. He died 1615, aged sixty,
and left “Traitc de la Noblesse, traduit de Tltalien de
Jean-Baptiste Nenna,
” printed Letters
on Negociations
” were published Catholicon.
” He married the sister of the marquis de
Feuquieres, governor of Verdun, by whom he had two
daughters; one died very young, the other married M.
Arnauld d'Andilli 1613, who by her obtained the estate of
Pomponne, and la Briotte.