Paul Henri Mallet

[2][3] A translation into English, with notes and preface, by Bishop Thomas Percy, was issued in 1770 under the title of Northern Antiquities[4] (republished with additions in 1847).

[1] While in Geneva, he was requested by the czarina Catherine the Great to undertake the education of the heir-apparent of Russia (afterwards the Czar Paul I), but declined.

[2] A more appealing invitation led to his accompanying the young Lord Mountstuart as a tutor in his Grand Tour travels through Italy, where Mallet met and clashed with James Boswell in Rome,[5] and thence to England, where he was presented at court and commissioned to write the history of the House of Brunswick.

[2] He had previously received similar commission from the landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) for the reparation of a history of the House of Hesse, and both works were completed in 1785.

His leanings to the unpopular side were so obnoxious to his fellow-citizens that he was obliged to quit his native country in 1792, and remained in exile till 1801.