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Jacques Amyot
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For the Canadian swimmer, see Jacques Amyot (swimmer).
Jacques Amyot (French: [amjo]; 30 October 1513 – 6 February 1593), French Renaissance bishop, scholar, writer and translator, was born of poor parents, at Melun.
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Portrait by Léonard Gaultier.