Postel traced Druze origins to ancient French Druids

Evidence

In particular, his notion of the successive incarnation of the Divine in men (and he considered himself an outstanding example) may have ultimately been derived from his reading of Druze literature. … He was especially enthusiastic about the Druze because he had determined that they were of French origin and that their name derived from ‘Druid’. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 127

Categorization

• CANDY: Delightfully absurd cocktail-party fact: a Renaissance scholar mapped the Druze onto Druids and thought French were descended from Noah.