{{Short description|French historian (1624–1696)}} '''Antoine Varillas''' (1624 – 9 June 1696)<ref>{{cite book|title=Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge|publisher=C. Knight|year=1843|page=144}}</ref> was a French historian, best known for his history of heresy.
==Life== He was born in Guéret and made a troubled way as a man of letters in Paris. He worked as a historian for Gaston, Duke of Orléans. Through an introduction from Pierre Dupuy, he was able to have library access, leading to work on manuscripts for Jean-Baptiste Colbert. Colbert, however, was dissatisfied with his work and replaced him. Varillas enjoyed support from Pierre Huet but became a marginal figure.<ref>{{in lang|fr}}http://www.histoire-gueret.fr/index.php?2007/11/03/143-antoine-varillas-1624-1696</ref>
==Works== His writings attracted a great deal of interest amongst his contemporaries; serious if partisan criticisms of the historical method of his earlier work led to his losing his reputation as a scholar. His works included:
*''Histoire de l'heresie de Viclef, Iean Hus, et Jerome de Prague: avec celle des guerres de Bohéme qui en ont esté les suites''; *''Histoire de Louis Onze''; and *''Histoire des révolutions arrivées dans l'Europe''.
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