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BIGNON, JEROME (1589–1656)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 922 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BIGNON, See also:JEROME (1589–1656) , See also:French lawyer, was See also:born at See also:Paris in 1589. He was uncommonly precocious, and under his See also:father's tuition had acquired an immense See also:mass of knowledge before he was ten years of See also:age. In 1600 was published a See also:work by him entitled Chorographie, ou description de la Terre Sainte. The See also:great reputation gained by this See also:book introduced the author to See also:Henry IV., who placed him for some See also:time as a See also:companion to the due de See also:Vendome, and made him See also:tutor to the dauphin, afterwards See also:Louis XIII. In 1604 he wrote his Discours de la ville de See also:Rome, and in the following See also:year his Traite aommaire de l'See also:election du See also:page. He then devoted himself to the study of See also:law, wrote in 1610 a See also:treatise on the precedency of the See also:kings of See also:France, which gave great See also:satisfaction to Henry IV., and in 1613 edited, with learned notes, the Formulae of the jurist Marculfe. In 1620 he was made See also:advocate-See also:general to the See also:grand See also:council, and shortly afterwards a councillor of See also:state, and in 1626 he became advocate-general to the See also:parlement of Paris. In 1641 he re-signed his See also:official dignity, and in 1642 was appointed by See also:Richelieu to the See also:charge of the royal library. He died in 1656.

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