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1530–1583 France

François de Belleforest (1530 – 1 January 1583) was a French writer, poet and translator of the Renaissance.

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"Who was ever sorrowful to behold the murderer of innocents brought to his end, or what man weepeth to see a just massacre done upon a tyrant, usurper, villain, and bloody personage?"

Histoires tragiques (1564)

Hereof the Athenian laws bear witness, whose custom was to erect images in remembrance of those men that, revenging the injuries of the commonwealth, boldly massacred tyrants and such as troubled the peace and welfare of the citizens.

Histoires tragiques (1564)

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