François Béroalde de Verville was a French Renaissance novelist, poet and intellectual. He was the son of Matthieu Brouard , called "Béroalde", a professor of Agrippa d'Aubigné and Pierre de l'Estoile and a Huguenot; his mother, Marie Bletz, was the niece of the humanist and Hebrew scholar François Vatable . At the time of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, his family fled to Geneva , but Béroalde returned to Paris in 1581. During the civil wars, Béroalde abjured Calvinism and joined the factions around Henri III of France . In 1589 he moved to Tours , and became chanoine of the cathedral chapter of Saint Gatien, where he remained until his death. Wikipedia
✵ 25. April 1556 – 1626