Three years after the death of de Thou, Pierre Dupuy and Nicolas Rigault brought out the first complete edition of the "Historia sui temporis", comprising 138 books; they appended to it the "Mémoires", also in Latin (1620). A hundred years later, Samuel Buckley published a critical edition, the material for which had been collected in France itself by Thomas Carte (1733). De Thou was treated as a classic, an honour which he deserved. His history is a model of exact research, drawn from the best sources, and presented in an elegant and animated style; unfortunately, even for the men of the Renaissance, Latin was a dead language; it was impossible for de Thou to find exact equivalents for technical terms of geography or of administration.