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When in rome the promise midi5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Besides contributions to the Mémoires of the Académie and other minor works, he wrote the Révolutions romains (1719) and Histoire des chevaliers hospitaliers de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem (History of the Knights Hospitallers), also known as Histoire de Malte (History of Malta). ![]() In 1703 Vertot was made a member of the Académie des inscriptions. The book was received with favour, and in 1695 appeared the Histoire des révolutions de Suède (History of the Swedish revolutions). In 1690, at the suggestion of Fontenelle and the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, he wrote his Histoire de la conjuration de Portugal. Afterwards he was appointed pastor to several small parishes in Normandy. His health was greatly impaired by his austerities there, and his family, alarmed, obtained permission for him to join the Premonstratensian Canons. He was for some time a pupil of the Jesuit Fathers seminary at Rouen, which he left at the end of two years to enter the Capuchin Order. René-Aubert Vertot (25 November 1655 in Bennetot, Normandy – 15 June 1735 in Paris) was a French clergyman and historian. Light foxing throughout, else in good condition. "Vertot: Histoire des Révolutions Arrivées dans la Gouvernement de la République Romaine".īound in period full leather, gilt on spine, marbled endpapers, marbled edges.
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