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NICOLAS See also: William
See also: Farel, published at See also: Geneva in 1545, followed (1545–1J49) by See also: translations into French of three tracts by See also: Calvin
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In 1J51 he was admitted See also: burgess of Geneva, and in 1553 made pastor of a country See also: church in the neighbourhood
.
In 1557 he was sent to
See also: minister to the Protestants at See also: Paris; his conductor, Nicolas du See also: Rousseau, having prohibited books in his possession, was executed at
See also: Dijon; See also: des Gallars, having nothing suspicious about him, continued his journey
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On the revival of the Strangers' church in See also: London (156o), he, being then minister at Geneva, came to London to organize the French branch; and in 1561 he published La Forme de police ecclesiaslique instituee a Londres en l'Eglise des FranQois
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In the same See also: year he assisted Beza at the colloquy of See also: Poissy
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He became minister to the Protestants at See also: Orleans in 1564; presided at the
See also: synod of Paris in 1565; was driven out of Orleans with other Protestants in 1568; and in 1571 was See also: chaplain to Jeanne d'See also: Albret, See also: queen of See also: Navarre
.
Calvin held him in high esteem, employing him as See also: amanuensis, and as editor as well as translator of several of his exegetical and polemical See also: works
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He himself wrote a commentary on See also: Exodus (156o); edited an annotated French See also: Bible (1562) and New Testament (1562); and published tracts against Arians (1565-1566)
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His See also: main See also: work was his edition of See also: Irenaeus (1570) with prefatory letter to See also: Grindal, then See also: bishop of London, and giving, for the first See also: time, some fragments of the See also: Greek text
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His collaboration with Beza in the Histoire des Eglises Reformees du royaume de See also: France (158o) is doubted by See also: Bayle
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See Bayle, Dictionnaire kist. et crit
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; See also: Jean See also: Senebier, Hist. litteraire de Geneve (1786); Nouvelle Biog. gen
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