ABSTRACT
The erudite historian Jacques-Auguste De Thou simply repeated Sainte-Marthe's account in the treatment of Le Roy he inserted into his selection of eulogies of learned men of his time. Thereafter, posterity maintained a fairly complete silence surrounding Le Roy's life and works until Becker's 1896 study. In the middle of the following century, scholars began to redress the balance somewhat, with Gundersheimer's monograph on Le Roy, and a number of articles and chapters devoted to him in studies of sixteenth-century historiography and translation practices. The giant Budé continues to overshadow his junior colleague and biographer. Biography became not only an act of textual representation of a pre-existing model, but also a projection of the future self of the biographer. In the case of these early modern biographies, exemplarity would thus function at multiple levels, encompassing the biographical subject, the biographer himself, and ultimately, the reader.
