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ODET DE SELVE (c. 1504-1563)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 615 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ODET DE

SELVE (c. 1504-1563)  , French diplomatist, was the son of
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Jean de Selve, first president at the.parlements of
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Rouen and
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Bordeaux,
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vice-chancellor of Milan, and ambassador of the king of France . In 1540 Odet was appointed councillor at the parlement of Paris and in 1542 at the
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grand council . In 1546, after the signature of the treaty of
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Ardres, he was sent on an
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embassy to England, in 1550 to Venice, and afterwards to Rome, where he obtained the election of Pope Paul IV. in 1555 .

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