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Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont
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Also Known As Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont
Born November 30, 1637 • Paris • France • (Birthday in 7 days)
Died January 10, 1698 (aged 60) • France
Subjects Of Study Roman Empire • history of early Christianity
Ferdinand Lot
French historian
Constantine I
Constantine I
Roman emperor
Diocletian
Diocletian
Roman emperor
Tacitus
Tacitus
Roman historian
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
British historian
Theodosius I
Theodosius I
Roman emperor
Nero
Nero
Roman emperor
Theodor Mommsen.
Theodor Mommsen
German historian, philologist, and legal scholar
Julian the Apostate, detail of a marble statue; in the Louvre, Paris.
Julian
Roman emperor
J.B. Bury
British scholar
Galerius, marble bust; in the Capitoline Museum, Rome
Galerius
Roman emperor
Barthold Georg Niebuhr, detail from an engraving
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
German historian
Flavio Biondo
Italian historian
Ammianus Marcellinus
Roman historian
Dio Cassius
Roman historian
Decius
Decius
Roman emperor
Appian of Alexandria
Greek historian
Galerius Valerius Maximinus, marble bust; in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Galerius Valerius Maximinus
emperor of Rome
Velleius Paterculus
Roman historian
Valerian
Roman emperor

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