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Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange
1610Dec, 18

Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange

Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian (d. 1688)
Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange or Du Cange (French: [dy kɑ̃ʒ]; December 18, 1610 in Amiens – October 23, 1688 in Paris, aged 77) was a distinguished philologist and historian of the Middle Ages and Byzantium.

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