Claude Paradin
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Claude Paradin (c. 1510 - 1573), was a French writer, collector of emblems or "devises", historian, and genealogist.
He is the author of Devises héroïques (1551, 1557).
Paradin's other publications included Quadrins Historiques de la Bible, 1553 (1555) and the Alliances Genealogiques des Rois et Princes de Gaulle (1561), dedicated to Catherine de' Medici.
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Biography
Paradin was born in Cuiseaux (Saone-et-Loire), spending his adult life as canon of the Collegiate Church in Beaujeu, between Mâcon and Lyons.
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