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NICOLAS COEFFETEAU (1574-1623)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 640 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICOLAS See also:COEFFETEAU (1574-1623)  , See also:French theologian, poet and historian, was See also:born at See also:Saint-See also:Calais . He entered the Dominican See also:order and lectured on See also:philosophy at See also:Paris, being also " See also:ordinary preacher " to See also:Henry IV., and afterwards See also:ambassador at See also:Rome . In 16o6 he was See also:vicar-See also:general of the See also:congregation of See also:France, and received from See also:Marie de' See also:Medici the revenues of the See also:sees of Lombez and See also:Saintes . He also administered the See also:diocese of See also:Metz, and was nominated -to that of See also:Marseilles in 1621, but See also:ill-See also:health obliged him here to take a coadjutor . See also:Coeffeteau won considerable distinction in the controversy against the See also:Protestant reformers and also wrote a See also:History of Rome from See also:Augustus to See also:Constantine . Many of his theological writings were collected in one See also:volume (Paris, 1622), and at the See also:time of his See also:death in 1623 he was engaged on a See also:translation of the New Testament which is still in See also:manuscript .

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