Early Life
Montfaucon was born January 13, 1655, in the castle of Soulatgé, a small village in the south Corbières, in the present department of Aude. After one year he was moved to the castle of Roquetaillade, residence of his family. When he was seven, he was sent to Limoux, to the college of the Fathers of Christian Doctrine.
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