Duchesne, André, French historian and geographer, born in Touraine; styled the “Father of French History”; famous for his researches in it and in French antiquities, and for histories of England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively; his industry was unwearied; he left more than 100 folios in MS. (1584‒1640).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Du Châtelet, Marquise de * Duchobortzi