Pierre Robert Olivétan
Pierre Robert Olivetan/Olivétan ( – 1538), a Waldensian by faith, was the first translator of the Bible into the French language starting from the Hebrew and Greek texts. He was a cousin of John Calvin, who wrote a Latin preface for the translation, often called the . His work was based on that of his teacher Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples. It was published in 1535 as La Bible Qui est toute la Saincte scripture at Neuchâtel. This translation has been considered the first French Protestant Bible. Notes

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 Selected books of Olivétan translation (with modern spelling)

People from Noyon
1538 deaths
French biblical scholars
Translators of the Bible into French
Year of birth uncertain
16th-century Calvinist and Reformed Christians