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See also: scholar, was See also: born at See also: Troyes on the 1st of See also: November 1539
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His taste for literature was early seen, and his See also: father See also: Pierre (1496-1556) cultivated it to the utmost
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He was called to the See also: Paris See also: bar in 1560
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On the outbreak of the second 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 edict of pacification
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Soon after-wards he accompanied the due de Montmorency on his See also: embassy to See also: England, returning shortly before the See also: massacre of St Bartholomew, in which he narrowly escaped with his See also: life
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Next See also: year he followed the example of See also: Henry of
See also: Navarre by abjuring the See also: Protestant faith
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Henry, shortly after his own accession to the See also: throne of France, recognized Pithou's talents and services by bestowing upon him various legal appointments
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The most important See also: work of his life was his co-operation in the production of the 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
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He died at Nogentsur-See also: Seine on the 1st of November 1596
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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
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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
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His earliest publication was Adversariorum subsecivorum See also: lib
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II . (1565) . Perhaps his edition of the Leges Visigothorum (1579) was his most valuable contribution to historical science; in the sameSee also: line he edited the Capitula of 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)
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His Libertes de l'eglise gallicane (1594) is reprinted in his See also: Opera sacra juridica his orica miscellanea collecta (1609)
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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 Juvenal and See also: Persius (1585)
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Three of Pithou's See also: brothers acquired distinction as jurists: See also: JEAN (1524–1602), author of Traite de police et du gouvernement See also: des republiques, and, in collaboration with his twin brother NIcoLAS (1524–1598), of Institution du mariage chretien; and FRANCOIS (1543–1621), author of Glossarium ad libros capitularium (1588), Traite de l'excommunication et de l'interdit, &c
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(1587)
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