A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Rapin De Thoyras, Paul

by John William Cousin

Rapin de Thoyras, Paul (1661-1725).—Historian, b. at Castres, Languedoc, belonged to a Protestant Savoyard family, and came to England on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1686. He afterwards served with William III. in Holland, and accompanied him to England in 1688. His History of England, written in French, was translated into English, and continued by various writers, and was the standard history until the appearance of Hume's.