Marie Nicolas Sylvestre Guillon
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Marie Nicolas Sylvestre Guillon (January 1, 1760 - 1847), French ecclesiastic, was born in Paris.
He was librarian and almoner in the household of the princesse de Lamballe, and when in 1792 she was executed, he fled to the provinces, where under the name of Pastel he practised medicine.
A man of facile conscience, he afterwards served in turn under Napoleon, the Bourbons and the Orleanists, and became canon of St Denis, bishop of Morocco and dean of the Sorbonne.
Among his many literary works are a Collection, des briefs du pape Pie VI (1798), Bibliothéque choisie des pines grecs et latins (1822, 26 vols,) and a French translation of Cyprian with notes (1837, 2 vols.).
- This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.