Charles Clémencet

Template:Short description Charles Clémencet (1703Template:Snd5 August 1778) was a French Benedictine historian.

He was born in Painblanc, in present-day Côte-d'Or, and was one of the authors who helped complete the great chronological work (the usual short form of a long title). He also wrote part of the monumental Histoire littéraire de la France, and the history of the abbey of Port Royal. He died in Paris in 1778.

Main publications

• 1750: L'Art de vérifier les dates des faits historiques, des chartes, des chroniques et autres anciens monuments, depuis la naissance de Notre-Seigneur, par le moyen d'une table chronologique, with Maurus Dantine
• 1753:
• 1755–1757: (10 volumes)
• 1758:
• 1759:
• 1760: (3 volumes)
• 1773:

Collaborations

• 1733–1763: (12 volumes)
• 1847: , tomes XII-XIII

Bibliography

• via HathiTrust