Claude Bendier (died 1677) was a doctor of the Sorbonne, canon of Saint-Quentin, Aisne, and a well-known French bibliophile.

Born in Saint-Quentin in an unknown year, he always remained strongly attached to his native city, to which he bequeathed his 3000 volume library on the condition that it be open to the public twice a week. His Life of St. Quentin was read in many primary schools during the Restoration and the early reign of Louis-Philippe.

Claude Bendier

Works

1671: La Défense des principales prérogatives de la ville et de l'église royale de S.-Quentin en Vermandois, par laquelle il est clairement justifié que cette ville est l'ancienne Auguste de Vermandois, et son église le siége primitif des évêques de ce diocèse. St-Quentin: Le Queux 1673: La vie du très illustre martyr, Saint-Quentin, apôtre et patron du Vermandois --do.--Quatrième édition. Saint-Quentin : Vve C. Le Queux, 1696 (later editions appeared in 1828, 1840 and 1842) 1684: L'hérésie de Calvin détruite par sept preuves invincibles. Saint-Quentin: Vve C. Le Queux --do.-- Saint-Quentin; et se vend à Paris: L. de Heuqueville, 1685

Claude Bendier

External links

Hommes de Saint-Quentin (in French)

Claude Bendier

French book and manuscript collectors

Year of birth missing

University of Paris alumni

1677 deaths

17th-century French writers

17th-century French male writers