Nicolas Rigault

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Nicolas Rigault (Rigaltius) (Paris, 1577-1654) was a French classical scholar. He was educated by the Jesuits[1].

He was successively councillor of the parlement of Metz, procurator general at Nancy, and intendant of the province of Toul.

He prepared annotated editions of Phaeder, Martial, Juvenal, Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Saint Cyprian, and also some mixed collections: Rei accipitrariæ scriptores, 1612; Rei agrariae scriptores, 1613.

He acted as librarian to Louis XIII[2]. He used a pseudonym J. B. Aeduus[3].

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  • Nicolas Rigault, in Marie-Nicolas Bouillet et Alexis Chassang (eds), Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de géographie, 1878

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