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PIERRE JEANNIN (1540-1622)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 299 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIERRE See also:JEANNIN (1540-1622)  , See also:French statesman, was See also:born at See also:Autun . A See also:pupil of the See also:great jurist Jacques See also:Cujas at See also:Bourges, he was an See also:advocate at See also:Dijon in 1569 and became councillor and then See also:president of the See also:parlement of See also:Burgundy . He opposed in vain the See also:massacre of St See also:Bartholomew in his See also:province . As councillor to the See also:duke of See also:Mayenne he sought to reconcile him with See also:Henry IV . After the victory of See also:Fontaine-Francaise (1595), Henry took See also:Jeannin into his See also:council and in 1602 named him See also:intendant of finances . He took See also:part in the See also:principal events of the reign, negotiated the treaty of See also:Lyons with the duke of See also:Savoy See also:Jean de Meun's See also:translation formed the basis of a rhymed version (1290) by Jean Priorat of See also:Besancon, Li abreyance de l'ordre de chevalerse . (see HENRY IV.), and the defensive See also:alliance between See also:France and the See also:United See also:Netherlands in 1608 . As See also:superintendent of finances under See also:Louis XIII., he tried to establish See also:harmony between the See also:king and the See also:queen-See also:mother . See Berger de Xivrey, Lettres missives de See also:Henri IV . (in the Collection inedite pour l'histoire de France), t. v . (185o) ; P(ierre) S(aumaise), Eloge sur la See also:vie de See also:Pierre See also:Janin (Dijon, 1623) ; Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, t. x . (May 1854) .

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