Michiel de Swaen

Michiel de Swaen was born in Dunkirk on 20 January 1654. He was eight when Louis XIV bought the town back from the English, in 1662; the following year, French became the compulsory language of the administration. A surgeon and barber established in 1678, he sat on the magistrate's council and from 1687 was the prince of his town's chamber of rhetoric. He wrote everything in Dutch and allowed only one of his translations to be printed; his manuscripts went to the abbey of Bergues, destroyed during the Revolution. He died in Dunkirk on 3 May 1707.

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• TheatreThe Boot beneath the CrownDe gecroonde leersseMichiel de Swaen · 1688LiteraturePublic domain