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PIERRE FRANCOIS LE COURAYER (1681-1776)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 318 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIERRE See also:FRANCOIS LE See also:COURAYER (1681-1776)  , See also:French See also:Roman See also:Catholic theological writer, was See also:born at See also:Rouen on the 17th of See also:November 1681 . While See also:canon See also:regular and librarian of the See also:abbey of St See also:Genevieve at See also:Paris, he conducted a See also:correspondence with See also:Archbishop See also:Wake on the subject of episcopal See also:succession in See also:England, which supplied him with material for his See also:work, Dissertation sur la validite See also:des ordinations des Anglais et sur la succession des eveques de l'Eglise anglicane, avec See also:les preuves justificatives des faits avances (See also:Brussels, 1723; Eng. trans. by D . See also:Williams, See also:London, 1725; reprinted See also:Oxford, 1844, with memoir of the author), an See also:attempt to prove that there has been no break in the See also:line of ordination from the apostles to the See also:English See also:clergy . His opinions exposed him to a See also:prosecution, and with the help of See also:Bishop See also:Atterbury, then in See also:exile in Paris, he took See also:refuge in England, where he was presented by the university of Oxford with a See also:doctor's degree . In 1736 he published a French See also:translation of See also:Paolo See also:Sarpi's See also:History of the See also:Council of See also:Trent, and dedicated it to See also:Queen See also:Caroline, from whom he received a See also:pension of £200 a See also:year . Besides this he translated Sleidan's History of the See also:Reformation, and wrote several theological See also:works . He died in London on the 17th of See also:October 1776, and was buried in the cloisters of See also:Westminster Abbey . In his will, dated two years before his See also:death, he declared himself still a member of the Roman Catholic See also:Church, although dissenting from many of its opinions .

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