Bernard de Girard Haillan

Bernard de Girard Haillan (c.1535–1610) was a French historian.

He was born in Bordeaux and occupied a number of political offices before Charles IX appointed him historiographer of France.

He was confirmed as historiographer by Henry III, who liked him so well, despite his vanity and selfishness, that he made him genealogist of the Order of the Holy Spirit, and gave him a pension of 1200 crowns.

[2] He is best known for L'histoire générale des rois de France jusqu'à Charles VII inclusivement (History of the kings of France up to Charles VII, 1576).

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