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DUPERRON, JACQUES DAVY (1556–1618)

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DUPERRON, JACQUES See also:DAVY (1556–1618) , See also:French See also:cardinal, was See also:born at St L6, in See also:Normandy, on the ,5th of See also:November 1556. His See also:father was a physician, who on embracing the doctrines of the See also:Reformation became a See also:Protestant See also:minister, and to See also:escape persecution settled at See also:Bern, in See also:Switzerland. Here Jacques Davy received his See also:education, being taught Latin and See also:mathematics by his father, and learning See also:Greek and See also:Hebrew and the See also:philosophy then in See also:vogue. Returning to Normandy he was presented to the See also:king by Jacques of Matignon; after. he had abjured Protestant-ism, being again presented by See also:Philip See also:Desportes, See also:abbot of Tiron, as a See also:young See also:man without equal for knowledge and See also:talent, he was appointed reader to the king. He was commanded to preach before the king at the See also:convent of See also:Vincennes, when the success of his See also:sermon on the love of See also:God, and of a funeral oration on the poet See also:Ronsard, induced him to take orders. On the See also:death of See also:Mary See also:queen of Scots he was chosen to pronounce her eulogy. On the death of See also:Henry III., after having supported for some See also:time the cardinal de See also:Bourbon, the See also:head of the See also:league against theking, Duperron became a faithful servant of Henry IV., and in 1591 was created by him See also:bishop of See also:Evreux. He instructed Henry in the See also:Catholic See also:religion; and in 1594 was sent to See also:Rome, where with Cardinal d'Ossat (1536–1604) he obtained Henry's See also:absolution. On his return to his See also:diocese,his zeal and eloquence were largely instrumental in withstanding the progress of Calvinism, and among others he converted Henry Sponde, who became bishop of Pamiers, and the Swiss See also:general See also:Sancy. At the See also:conference at See also:Fontainebleau in 1600 he argued with much eloquence and ingenuity against Du Plessis See also:Mornay (1549-1623). In 1604 he was sent to Rome as See also:charge d'affaires de See also:France; when See also:Clement VIII. died, he largely contributed by his eloquence to the See also:election of See also:Leo XI. to the papal See also:throne, and, on the death of Leo twenty-four days after, to the election of See also:Paul V. While still at Rome he was made a cardinal, and in 1606 became See also:archbishop of See also:Sens.

After the death of Henry IV. he took an active See also:

part in the states-general of 1614, when he vigorously upheld the ultramontane doctrines against the Third See also:Estate. He died in See also:Paris on the 6th of See also:September 1618. See See also:Les Divetses Euvres de l'illustrissime cardinal Duperron (Paris, 1622) ; See also:Pierre Feret, Le Cardinal Duperron (Paris, 1877).

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