Charles Coffin (writer)

Engraved portrait by Touzé-Duflos of Charles Coffin

Charles Coffin (4 October 1676 Buzancy, now in the department of Ardennes - 20 June 1749 Paris) was a French teacher, writer and Jansenist who was Rector of the University of Paris. Among his writings are a number of hymns which have been translated into English.[1]

Footnotes

  1. The English Hymnal, 1907; p. 945

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