Vaissete, J. 1685-1756
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Name (Latin)
Vaissete, J. 1685-1756
Other forms of name
Vaissete, Joseph, 1685-1756
Date of birth
1685-05-04
Date of death
1756-04-10
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Vic, Claude de. Histoire generale de Languedoc, 1872-1892:title page, tome 1 (Dom J. Vaissete; Benedictin of La Congrégation de Saint-Maur)
- nuc87-120509: Vic, C. Histoire generale de Languedoc, 1973(hdg. on NcU rept.: Vaissete, Joseph, 1685-1756; usage: J. Vaissete)
Wikipedia description:
Dom Joseph Vaissète (or Vaissette) (1685 – 10 April 1756) was a scholarly French Benedictine monk who wrote a history of Languedoc and a geography of the world as it was known in his day. Vaissette's Histoire générale de Languedoc is still considered a work of great erudition and value by modern historians. The Geography had its faults from lack of technology, but was the most detailed and accurate of its day. Some names for the volume differ from modern usage. Because of this, he gives the name La Côte des Dents ("Coast of Teeth") to what is now the Côte d'Ivoire ("Ivory Coast").
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