, a person of whose history little is known, was a relation of the
, a person of whose history little
is known, was a relation of the celebrated Calvin, and the
first who translated the Bible into French, which he printed
at Neufchatel, in 1535, fol. His translation is not very
accurate, but it was improved in subsequent editions by
Calvin, Beza, and others, and formed the foundation of
what was called the Geneva translation. The edition of
1540, 4to, called “La Bible de l'Epee,
” is very scarce,
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