Lazare de Baïf
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Template:Short description Lazare de Baïf (1496–1547) was a French diplomat and humanist. His natural son, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, was born in Venice, while Lazare was French ambassador there.Template:Sfn
He published a translation of the Electra of Sophocles in 1537, and afterwards a version of the Hecuba. He was an elegant writer of Latin verse, and is commended by Joachim du Bellay as having introduced certain valuable words into the French language.Template:Sfn
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- 1496 births
- 1547 deaths
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- 16th-century French writers
- 16th-century French male writers
- French classical scholars
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