Antoine Arnauld (lawyer)

Antoine Arnauld (August 6, 1560, Paris – 29 December 1619, Paris) was a lawyer in the Parlement de Paris, and a Counsellor of State under Henry IV.

1594 pamphlet by Antoine Arnauld

Life

Antoine Arnauld was the son of the general advocate of Catherine de' Medici.[1] Raised a Protestant, he is thought to have converted to Catholicism after the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.[2] A skilled orator, his most famous speech was in 1594 in favor of the University of Paris and against the Jesuits, decrying their lack of support for Henry IV, newly converted from Protestantism to Catholicism.[3] He wrote a number of political pamphlets which were widely distributed. The best known of his writings is entitled Le franc et véritable discours du Roi sur le rétablissement qui lui est demandé des Jésuites (1602). He was married to Catherine Marion de Druy, daughter of Simon Marion, baron de Druy, advocate general of Henry IV. They had twenty children, ten of whom survived him.[4]

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References
  1. Thein, John. Ecclesiastical Dictionary, Benziger Brothers, 1900, p. 55
  2. Diefendorf, Barbara B., From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris, Oxford University Press, 2004, p. 255 ISBN 9780198025580
  3. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Arnauld" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  4. Fournet, Pierre Auguste (1907). "Arnauld" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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