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NICHOLAS FRENCH (1604-1678)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 99 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICHOLAS See also:FRENCH (1604-1678)  , See also:bishop of Ferns, was an Irish See also:political pamphleteer, who was See also:born at See also:Wexford . He was educated at See also:Louvain, and returning to See also:Ireland became a See also:priest at Wexford, and before 1646 was appointed bishop of Ferns . Having taken a prominent See also:part in the political disturbances of this See also:period, See also:French deemed it prudent to leave Ireland in 1651, and the See also:remainder of his See also:life was passed on the See also:continent of See also:Europe . He acted as coadjutor to the archbishops of See also:Santiago de Compostella and See also:Paris, and to the bishop of See also:Ghent, and died at Ghent on the 23rd of See also:August 1678 . In 1676 he published his attack on See also:James See also:Butler, See also:marquess of See also:Ormonde, entitled " The Unkinde Desertor of Loyall Men and True Frinds,” and shortly afterwards " The Bleeding Iphigenia." The most important of his other See also:pamphlets is the "Narrative of the See also:Earl of See also:Clarendon's See also:Settlement and See also:Sale of Ireland " (Louvain, 1668) . The See also:Historical See also:Works of Bishop French, comprising the three pamphlets already mentioned and some letters, were published by S . H . Bindon at See also:Dublin in 1846 . See T . D . McGee, Irish Writers of the 17th See also:Century (Dublin, 1846) ; See also:Sir J . T .

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Gilbert, Contemporary See also:History of Affairs in Ireland, 1641-1652 (Dublin, 1879-188o); and T . See also:Carte, Life of James, See also:Duke of See also:Ormond (new ed., See also:Oxford, 1851) .

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