Note 84 — Chapter I · The Early Life of Jean de Dinteville
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Lefèvre had previously been the instructor of Renée of France, whose sympathies with the Reformers were well known. (Fontana, “Renata di Francia,” vol. i., p. 275, where the further authority is cited: Franz Blümmer, “Renata von Ferrara,” p. 24.) Jacques Lefèvre was born at Etaples about 1455, and died at Nérac in 1537.