Anne Dacier
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Anne Le Fèvre Dacier, better known during her lifetime as Madame Dacier, was a French scholar, translator, commentator and editor of the classics, including the Iliad and the Odyssey. She sought to ch
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Miniature of Madame Dacier by Marie Victoire Jaquotot
Tanneguy Le Fèvre
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Tanneguy Le Fèvre was a French classical scholar. He wrote many books, and translated numerous classical works. Somewhat unusual in this era, he educated his daughter Anne Dacier in Greek and Latin, a
Anne Dacier
…born. She spent the rest of her childhood in Saumur, a town in the Loire region of France, and was taught both Latin and ancient Greek by her father, Tanneguy Le Fèvre. On 29 October 1662, she married Jean Lesnier II. They had a son, Taneguy, born in January 1669, but who died three weeks later. The couple separated…
Engraving of Tanaquil Faber by Frans van Bleyswyck
The start of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura, edited by Le Fèvre, 1675