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From: "Marc Demarest" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] French version ?
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 16:24:19 -0800
In-Reply-To: <20061203000809.C465CEE620@ws6-1.us4.outblaze.com>




Peter: So if you know then let us all know when was the first copy of the
bible translated into French, printed and made available to the masses ?

Probably not for "the masses", but I undestood that Jacques Le Fevre
d'Estaples did the first translation into French-as-was.

Le Fevre's translation, and others, were used in the preparation of the
so-called "Geneva Bible" of 1560 (in English), which in turn formed the
basis for the Bishops' Bible of 1568, which was the primary *English*
source for the King James text of 1611.

Good info here:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/speccoll/exhibitions/bibleex/eurbib.
html


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