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PIERRE PITHOU (1539-1596)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 666 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIERRE See also:PITHOU (1539-1596)  , See also:French lawyer and See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Troyes on the 1st of See also:November 1539 . His See also:taste for literature was See also:early seen, and his See also:father See also:Pierre (1496-1556) cultivated it to the utmost . He was called to the See also:Paris See also:bar in 1560 . On the outbreak of the second See also:war of See also:religion in 1567, See also:Pithou, who was a Calvinist, withdrew to See also:Sedan and afterwards to See also:Basel, whence he returned to See also:France on the publication of the See also:edict of pacification . Soon after-wards he accompanied the due de See also:Montmorency on his See also:embassy to See also:England, returning shortly before the See also:massacre of St See also:Bartholomew, in which he narrowly escaped with his See also:life . Next See also:year he followed the example of See also:Henry of See also:Navarre by abjuring the See also:Protestant faith . Henry, shortly after his own See also:accession to the See also:throne of France, recognized Pithou's talents and services by bestowing upon him various legal appointments . The most important See also:work of his life was his co-operation in the See also:production of the See also:Satire Menippee (1593), which did so much to damage the cause of the See also:League; the harangue of the Sieur d'Aubray is usually attributed to his See also:pen . He died at Nogentsur-See also:Seine on the 1st of November 1596 . His valuable library, specially See also:rich in See also:MSS., was for the most See also:part transferred to what is now the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris . Pithou wrote a See also:great number of legal and See also:historical books, besides preparing See also:editions of several See also:ancient: authors . His earliest publication was Adversariorum subsecivorum See also:lib .

II . (1565) . Perhaps his edition of the Leges Visigothorum (1579) was his most valuable contribution to historical See also:

science; in the same See also:line he edited the Capitula of See also:Charlemagne, See also:Louis the Pious, and See also:Charles the Bald in 1588, and he also assisted his See also:brother See also:Francois in preparing an edition of the Corpus See also:juris canonici (1687) . His Libertes de l'eglise gallicane (1594) is reprinted in his See also:Opera sacra juridica his orica miscellanea collecta (1609) . In classical literature he was the first who made the See also:world acquainted with the Fables of See also:Phaedrus (1596) ; he also edited the Pervigilium Veneris (1587), and See also:Juvenal and See also:Persius (1585) . Three of Pithou's See also:brothers acquired distinction as jurists: See also:JEAN (1524–1602), author of Traite de See also:police et du gouvernement See also:des republiques, and, in collaboration with his twin brother See also:NIcoLAS (1524–1598), of Institution du mariage chretien; and FRANCOIS (1543–1621), author of Glossarium ad libros capitularium (1588), Traite de l'See also:excommunication et de l'interdit, &c . (1587) .

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