The New International Encyclopædia/Haillan, Bernard de Girard
HAILLAN, ī'äN', 
(c.1535-1610). A French historian, born in Bordeaux.
He occupied a number of political offices
before Charles IX. appointed him historiographer
of France, in which position he was confirmed
by Henry III., who liked him so well, despite his
vanity and selfishness, that he made him genealogist
of the Order of the Holy Ghost, and gave
him a pension of 1200 crowns. His chief work
is L'histoire générale des rois de France jusqu'à
Charles VII. inclusivement (1576), which ran
through many editions.