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JEAN CLAUDE (1619-1687)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 463 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:CLAUDE (1619-1687)  , See also:French See also:Protestant divine, was See also:born at La Sauvetat-du-Dropt near See also:Agen . After studying at See also:Montauban, he entered the See also:ministry in 1645 . He was for eight years See also:professor of See also:theology in the Protestant See also:college of See also:Nimes; but in 1661, having successfully opposed a See also:scheme for re-uniting Catholics and Protestants, he was forbidden to preach in See also:Lower See also:Languedoc . In 1662 he obtained a See also:post at Montauban similar to that which he had lost; but after four years he was removed from this also . He next became pastor at Charenton near See also:Paris, where he engaged in controversies with See also:Pierre See also:Nicole (Reponse aux deux traites intitules la perpetuite de la foi, 1665), See also:Antoine See also:Arnauld (Reponse au livre de M . Arnauld, 1670), and J . B . See also:Bossuet (Reponse au livre de M. t'eveque de See also:Meaux, 1683) . On the revocation of the See also:edict of See also:Nantes he fled to See also:Holland, and received a See also:pension from See also:William of See also:Orange, who commissioned him to write an See also:account of the persecuted See also:Huguenots (Plaintes See also:des protestants cruellement opprimes clans le royaume de See also:France, 1686) . The See also:book was translated into See also:English, but by See also:order of See also:James II. both the See also:translation and the See also:original were publicly burnt by the See also:common hangman on the 5th of May 1686, as containing " expressions scandalous to His See also:Majesty the See also:king of France." Other See also:works by him were Reponse au livre de P . Nouet sur l'eucharistie (1668); Euvres posthumes (See also:Amsterdam, 1688), containing the Traite de la See also:composition d'un See also:sermon, translated into English in 1778 . See See also:biographies by J .

P . Niceron and See also:

Abel Rotholf de la Deveze; E . Haag, La France protestante, vol. iv . (1884, new edition) .

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