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active 17th century Simon Du Cros

A shadowy 17th-century French writer, translator, and physician, he appears in the record through a small but varied body of work. His surviving books connect literary translation, poetry, court biography, and political commentary.

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Letter from Monsieur de Cros (who was an embassador at the Treaty of Nimeguen and a resident at England in K. Charles the Second's reign) to the Lord ----; being an answer to Sir Wm. Temple's memoirs concerning what passed from the year 1672 until the year 1679

Letter from Monsieur de Cros (who was an embassador at the Treaty of Nimeguen and a resident at England in K. Charles the Second's reign) to the Lord ----; being an answer to Sir Wm. Temple's memoirs concerning what passed from the year 1672 until the year 1679

by active 17th century Simon Du Cros

About the author

Born in Pézenas, Simon Du Cros — also found as Simon Ducros or du Cros — is a little-known French author active in the 17th century. French library records link him to works including Les diverses poésies (1647), a translation of Guidobaldo Bonarelli’s La Fillis de Scire, and books connected with Henri II, duc de Montmorency.

A scholarly Richelieu correspondence project identifies him as a native of Pézenas and the physician of Henri II de Montmorency. According to that source, he treated the duke after the battle of Castelnaudary in 1632 during Montmorency’s imprisonment, which places Du Cros close to major political events of his time.

His name is also attached to A Letter from Monsieur de Cros, a later political work associated with debates around English and French diplomacy under Charles II. Because the historical record is fragmentary, many personal details remain uncertain, but the surviving evidence suggests a writer who moved between medicine, literature, and public affairs.