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ARNAUD DU FERRIER (c. 1508-1585)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 287 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARNAUD DU See also:FERRIER (c. 1508-1585)  , See also:French jurisconsult and diplomatist, was See also:born at See also:Toulouse about 15o8, and practised as a lawyer first at See also:Bourges, afterwards at Toulouse . Councillor to the See also:parlement of the latter See also:town, and then to that of See also:Rennes, he later became See also:president of the parlement of See also:Paris . He represented See also:Charles IX., See also:king of See also:France, at the See also:council of See also:Trent in 1562, but had to retire in consequence of the attitude he had adopted, and was sent as See also:ambassador to See also:Venice, where he remained till 1567, returning again in 1570 On his return to France he came into See also:touch with the Calvinists whose tenets he probably embraced, and consequently lost his See also:place in the privy council and See also:part of his See also:fortune . As See also:compensation, See also:Henry, king of See also:Navarre, appointed him his See also:chancellor . He died in the end of See also:October 1585 . See also E . See also:Fremy, Un Ambassadeur liberal sous Charles IX et See also:Henri III, See also:Arnaud du See also:Ferrier (Paris, 1880) .

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