97.
[253] Wraxall, vol.v.pp.

356, 357.
[254] Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye, was born at Orleans in the year 1634, and passed nearly all his life in composing works of history and in translating the historians by whom he had been preceded.

His principal productions are _A History of the Government of Venice; Historical, Political, Critical, and Literary Memoirs_; and translations of the _History of the Council of Trent_, by Fra Paolo; of the _Prince_ by Machiavelli; and of the _Annals of Tacitus_.

He died in 1706.
[255] Mezeray, vol.x.pp.

261, 262.
[256] Sully, _Mem_.