Amyot, Jacques, grand-almoner of France and bishop of Auxerre; was of humble birth; was tutor of Charles, who appointed him grand-almoner; he was the translator, among other works, of Plutarch into French, which remains to-day one of the finest monuments of the old literature of France, it was much esteemed by Montaigne (1513‒1593).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Amurnath * Amyot, Joseph