Thierry, Jacques Nicholas Augustin. Born in Blois, May 10, 1795. An eminent French historian, best known as the author of "The History of the Conquest of England by the Normans." Thierry was the author of numerous other historical works, his last being "An Essay on the formation and Progress of the Third Estate." For the last 25 years of his life Thierry was afflicted with total blindness. Died May 22, 1856.

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