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PIERRE ALLIA (1641-1717)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 698 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIERRE See also:ALLIA (1641-1717)  , See also:French See also:Protestant divine, was See also:born at See also:Alencon . He was pastor first at St Agobile in See also:Champagne, and then at Charenton, near See also:Paris . The revocation of the See also:edict of See also:Nantes in 1685 compelled him to take See also:refuge in See also:London, where, under the See also:sanction of See also:James II., he opened a 698 See also:ALLMAN - See also:church for the French exiles . His reputation for learning was such as to obtain for him, soon after his arrival, the degree of See also:doctor of divinity from both See also:universities, and in 1690 he received from See also:Bishop See also:Burnet the more substantial See also:honour of the treasurer-See also:ship and a canonry in See also:Salisbury See also:Cathedral . He died at London in See also:March 1717 . The See also:works of Allix, which are numerous, are chiefly of a controversial and apologetic See also:character, and must be used with caution . In opposition to See also:Bossuet he published Some Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical See also:History of the See also:Ancient Churches of See also:Piedmont (169o), and Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of the Albigenses (1692), with the See also:idea of showing that the Albigenses were not Manichaeans, but historically identical with the Waldenses .

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