Gilles de Loches
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Gilles de Loches
Gilles de Loches / Aegidius Lochiensis (17th cent.) was a French Capucin and orientalist. In the early 17th century inaugurated the Capucin missions in Egypt (Said, 1626; Cairo, 1633). When he returned in France in 1633, he met the French intellectual and collector Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc and reported that the "lost" book of Enoch was available in Ethiopic in Egypt. Peiresc contacted Gilles' successor in Egypt, Father Agathange de Vendome, and was able to obtain a copy of the manuscript, which however in 1681 was revealed to be merely a theological commentary, containing only some references and allusions to the book of Enoch.