Emery Bigot's existence spans the main outstanding years of seventeenth-century France. He left a few 600 letters addressed to the 4 corners of literary Europe; between his correspondents, friends, and neighbors have been males of the stature of Jean Chapelain, Nicolaus Heinsius, Charles du Cange, Richard Simon, John Milton, and Gilles Ménage. He travelled extensively and used to be for a few 40 years on the very centre pf a firmly tested, easily functioning community of mutual information and scholarly details that associated the international locations of western Europe. From Uppsala to Venice, from Vienna to Oxford, Leiden, London: a community which particularly obviously thought of Paris its centre, and whose contributors represented each curiosity, very phase of highbrow society. Bigot was once additionally the author of what used to be probably crucial deepest library of his period. but at the present time he's nearly unknown, and his correspondence, scattered broadly, has now not been tested completely given that his death.

This targeted biography and important learn relies on Bigot's letters and on different unpublished fabrics in France, Italy, Holland, Denmark, and England. even if a lot attempt has been directed in the direction of learn at the extra widespread contemporaries of Bigot, he himself – higher recognized to the students of his interval than a Racine, a los angeles Fontaine, or a Molière – has long past unappreciated. Professor Doucette's publication indicates that Bigot represents a vital and heavily overlooked aspect of French and eu humanistic reviews within the 17th century. Bigot's position as a superb classical student and bibliographic specialist, his guides and tasks for guides, his correspondence, and what's possibly an important side of his task, his collaboration with different authors in seventeenth-century Europe, all obtain complete and extensive assurance. This publication holds distinct curiosity for students in different disciplines, specifically historians of French literature and civilization, classicists, philologists, bibliophiles and bibliographers, and historians of religion.