St Real

St.-Real, CAESAR VACHARD, ABBE DE (1639-92), Savoyard historian, was educated by the Jesuits at Paris, to which he was sent at the age of sixteen. He gave much attention to historical study, and was made historiographer of Savoy after his return from England, whither he had accompanied St. Evremond and the Duchess of Mazarin. He wrote the. memoirs of the last-named, but his principal work is his Conjuration de Venise (1674), a masterpiece in its way, and modelled on Sallust.