Charles de Guiffardière
Biography
Birth: n/a
Death: 1810
Protestant clergyman. Sometime french reader to Queen Charlotte of England (1744-1818) and instructor in history to the royal princesses. Sometime Prebendary of Salisbury and Minister of the King's French Chapel. Author of Élémentaire d'Histoire Ancienne (1798). Fanny Burney referred to him as Mr. Turbulent, and described him as "here and there a little eccentric, but, in the main, merely good-humoured and high-spirited".1
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Life with James Boswell
Boswell met Guiffardière Utrecht in 1763, and they corresponded occasionally during his stay there.
Notes
Note 1: Dobson, Austin. (1903) Fanny Burney: (Madame D'Arblay) , p. 152.
Other sources: Boswell in Holland 1763-64
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