See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

PAUL See also:

• PAUL PELLISSON (1624—1693)

PELLISSON (1624—1693)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French author, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• BEZIERS

Beziers on the 3oth of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1624, of a distinguished Calvinist See also:

• FAMILY

family . He studied See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law at See also:

• TOULOUSE
• TOULOUSE, LOUIS ALEXANDRE DE BOURBON, COUNT OF (1678-1737)

Toulouse, and practised at the See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar of See also:

• CASTRES

Castres . Going to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris with letters of introduction to Valentin See also:

• CONRART (or CONRARD), VALENTIN (1603-1675)

Conrart, who was a co-religionist, he became through him acquainted with the members of the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

academy . See also:

• PELLISSON, PAUL (1624—1693)

Pellisson undertook to be their historian, and in 1653 published a Relation contenant l'histoire de l'academie francaise . This See also:

• PANEGYRIC

panegyric was rewarded by a promise of the next vacant See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place and by permission to be See also:

• PRESENT

present at their meetings . In 1657 Pellisson became secretary to the See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of See also:

• FINANCE

finance, See also:

• NICOLAS
• NICOLAS, SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS (1799–1848)

Nicolas See also:

• FOUQUET (or FOUCQUET), NICOLAS (1615-168o)

Fouquet, and when in 1661 the minister was arrested, his secretary was imprisoned in the See also:

• BASTILLE (from Fr. bastir, now bdtir, to build)

Bastille . Pellisson had the courage to stand by his fallen See also:

• PATRON

patron, in whose See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence he issued his celebrated Memoire in 1661, with the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title Discours au roi, See also:

• PAR (Lat. par, equal)

par un de ses fideles sujets sur le proces de M. de Fouquet, in which the facts in favour of Fouquet are marshalled with See also:

• GREAT

great skill . Another pamphlet, Seconde defense de M . Fouquet, followed . Pellisson was released in 1666, and from this date sought the royal favour . He became historiographer to the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king, and in that capacity wrote a fragmentary Histoire de See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis XI V., covering the years 166o to 167o . In 167o he was converted to Catholicism and obtained See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich ecclesiastical preferment .

He died on the 7th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1693 . He was very intimate with Mlle de See also:

• SCUDERY

Scudery, in whose novels he figures as Herminius and Acante . His See also:

• STERLING
• STERLING, ANTOINETTE (d. 1904)
• STERLING, JOHN (1806-1844)

sterling See also:

• WORTH
• WORTH, CHARLES FREDERICK (1825-1895)

worth of See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character made him many See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends and justified See also:

• BUSSY, ROGER DE RABUTIN, COMTE DE (1618–1693)

Bussy-Rabutin's description of him as " encore plus honnete homme que See also:

• BEL

bel esprit." See Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, vol. xiv.; and F . L . Marcon, Etude sur la See also:

• VIE

vie et See also:

• LES

les ceuvres de Pellisson (1859) .