DU CANGE, dp kiixzh. rtiAra.Es nr Enlist: (11.10 I• A French scholar. one 14 the greatest of the seventeenth century, born at .\miens. lle became treasurer in his Halite 10‘‘n, but devoted his entire life to the study of the :Middle Ages. Ile is bet known for his great Ginssarium ml Scriptures Media. it 11111)11,r La initat iN, published in three volumes in Paris in 167S, a veritable treasure of industry and erudition. It Went through many with an increase of subje•t•inatter, and was last published in ten volumes by Favre(Mort. Itss4-87), and is the standard work on modbrval Latin. Du Cange planned a similar work for mediaeval Greek, and published the taussarium .11,.,licr et Infinite Unucitutk on a less extensive scale, in Lyons in 16S8, the year of his death. Ile edited several Byzantine historians. with t in translations, as Palau, Nilent jarjuS h170 ZOtla 1*(1.V (DiS) .\ IC( phOrIIS GlegOnt.ti ( posthumously in 1702) : and the Chrunicun Paschal,- sire Alexamlrinum in 16SS.
Nor were his studies confined to the mediaeval Greek and Latin writers. Among his many other works were: Histoire de /empire de con stqatinop/e sons les crape rcurs francuis (1657 I. and Ilistoirr Ei'tot de In rille trt miens, et (le srs comics. found among his papers and pub lished in IS41. Consult Foupisre. Essai soy It vie et les ourrages de Du Cu n yr (Paris, 1S52).
DUCAS, (156"kas (Lat., from Gk. AoliKar. Dou kas), ..111(ALIEL. A Greek historian, who lived in the fifteenth century. He belonged to the imperial family of the same name at Constan tinople. He wrote a trustworthy History of the Fall of the By:mntine Empire (edited by Bekker for the Bonn series of Byzantine historians, IS34). embracing the period from the death of John Paheologus I., 1355, to the capture of Les bos in 1462.