François Eudes de Mézeray

François studied at the University of Caen, and completed his education at the College of Ste Barbe at Paris.

[2] Mézeray won the favor of Pierre Séguier and was given the title "Historiographer to the King of France".

His Abrégé chronologique (3 vols., 1667–1668) went through fifteen editions between 1668 and 1717; and he used it to attack the financiers, with the result that his salary as historiographer was diminished by Colbert.

[1] Mézeray succeeded Valentin Conrart as permanent secretary to the Académie française (1675), and died at Paris.

He translated Grotius's Traité de la religion chretienne (1640), and a Histoire des Turcs depuis 1612 jusqu'en 1649 (1650), which is an addition to a continuation of Laonikos Chalkokondyles.