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Introductory Note
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ographers have devoted themselves to a matter which must have been of no small interest in Lipsius's life (judging from his enthusiastic manner of treating it), one, at least, has done full justice to it,—a Frenchman, Étienne Gabriel Peignot, who, born in Arc-en-Barrios in 1767, devoted his whole life to the cause of bibliography. The account of this scholar written by Simonnet, in his Essai sur la vie et les ouvrages de Gabriel Peignot, 1863, deserves to be on the shelves of every librarian, certainly of every bibliographer.
Early in his career Peignot planned a great bibliographical work, of which his Manuel Bi-
