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Claude Drigon de Magny was born in 1797, in Paris, France.
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Claude Drigon de Magny
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After being employed for some time in the postal service, he devoted himself to the study of heraldry and genealogy, his work in this direction being rewarded by Pope Gregory XVI with a marquisate. He founded a French college of heraldry, and wrote several works on heraldry and genealogy, of which the most important were Archives nobiliaires universelles (1843) and Livre d' or de la noblesse de France (1844 - 1852).
Claude Drigon, Marquis de Magny died in 1879.
