D'ESTAPLES, Lat. JACOBUS STAPULENS1S ( C. 1450 c.1536). A French Roman Catholic, one of the first scholars and exegefes of his time. Ile was born at Estaples (Etaples), near Boulogne, about 1450. He studied at the University of Paris, and became professor in the College of Cardinal Le moine. He traveled widely, and is said to have visited Asia and Africa. When his former pupil, William BriConnet, became Abbot of the Parisian Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Pres in 1507, he secured for Faber a home there, 3vhich he retained till 1520. Then he became director of the leper hospital at Meaux. His works were obnoxious to some of the Church authorities, but he was safe from molestation under the King's authority till Francis I. was taken prisoner at Pavia in 1525. Faber was then formally con demned, and his works were suppressed. He fled to Blois and to Guienne, or, according to some accounts, to Strassburg. On the return of Francis such proceedings were stopped, and he was made tutor of the King's children and Royal Librarian at Blois. When the Princess Margaret
became Queen of Navarre she received Faber in her city of Nhrae, and there he passed his old age in quiet. He died there in 1536. Among Faber's works were the Physics, Metaphysics, and Ethics of Aristotle, and a psalter in five languages. In 1512 lie issued a translation into French of the Epistles of Saint Paul. in 1523 of the whole New Testament, in 1528 of the Penta teuch, and in 1530 of the entire Bible. These translations were from the Vulgate, with refer ence, however, to the originals, and corrections where Faber deemed them necessary. He also added short notes and comments. Faber's work has been the basis of all subsequent French versions. For his life, consult De Labatier Plan tin (Montauban, 1870), and Prossdij (Leyden, 1900).