Symphorien Champier

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1471 - 1539

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Symphorien Champier (1471–1539), a Lyonnese doctor born in Saint-Symphorien (France), was related to the Chevalier de Bayard through his wife, Marguerite Terrail.
A doctor of medicine at Montpellier, Champier was the personal physician of Antoine, Duke of Lorraine, whom he followed to Italy with Louis XII and he finally settled in Lyon. He worked in Lyon where he established the College of the Doctors of Lyon. There he fulfilled the duties of an alderman and contributed to numerous local foundations, in particular L'Ecole des médecins de Lyon ("The School of the Doctors of Lyon").
Furthermore Champier studied Greek scholars and Arab medicine and composed a great number of historical works, including Chroniques de Savoie in 1516 and Vie de Bayard in 1525.He is known for his tract La nef des dames vertueuses [The Ship of Virtuous Ladies], one of the first 'feminist' treatises written in French. He was an extreme opponent to Renaissance occultism, and wrote in 1532 a 'Epistola campegiana de tranmutatione metallorum contra alchimistas’. Historians believe that he died in the second part of 1539.

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