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EXTRACT
OF THE
<g>LIFE</g>
OF
The <g>AUTHOR</g>.
From M. <g>Bayle</g>.
That he was born in Flanders,
educated at Paris, Lorrain, Venice,
Bologna, and Padua; made
great Progress in his Studies,
having acquir'd a Knowledge in
near Ten different Languages;
was sometime in London, with the Emperor
Ferdinand's Ambassador; returned to Flanders,
and from thence to Vienna, where he was appointed
Ambassador to Solyman the Great, and
soon set out for Constantinople; but not finding
him there, was obliged to go to Amasia, &c.