Joseph Vaissète

Who was Joseph Vaissète?

Dom Joseph Vaissète was a scholarly French Benedictine monk who wrote a history of Languedoc and a geography of the world as it was known in his day. Vaissette's Histoire générale de Languedoc is still considered a work of great erudition and value, often consulted by modern historians. The Geography had its faults, but was the most detailed and accurate of its day. Some names differ from modern usage. Thus he gives the name La Côte des Dents to what is now the Côte d'Ivoire.