a French Renaissance novelist, poet and intellectual. Béroalde had close ties to the intellectual and creative milieus of the late 16th century and early 17th century. His first works were contributions to a work on mathematics and mechanics (1578) and to a history of blazons (1581). He also produced numerous historical and philosophical works. Béroalde's corpus is vast and his works show a preoccupation with encyclopedic learning, the organization of knowledge and the difficulties of interpretation.
