Joseph Vaissète, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French historian
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Place of Birth: Gaillac, Occitania, France
About Joseph Vaissète
- Dom Joseph Vaissète (or Vaissette) (1685 – 1756) was a scholarly French Benedictine monk who wrote a history of Languedoc and a geography of the world as it was known in his day.
- Vaissette's Histoire générale de Languedoc is still considered a work of great erudition and value by modern historians.
- The Geography had its faults from lack of technology, but was the most detailed and accurate of its day.
- Some names for the volume differ from modern usage.
- Because of this, he gives the name La Côte des Dents ("Coast of Teeth") to what is now the Côte d'Ivoire ("Ivory Coast").
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