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DUPUY, PIERRE (1582-1651)

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DUPUY, See also:PIERRE (1582-1651) , See also:French See also:scholar, otherwise known as PUTEANUS, was See also:born at See also:Agen (See also:Lot-et-See also:Garonne) on the 27th of See also:November 1582. In 1615 he was commissioned by Mathieu See also:Mole, first See also:president of the See also:parlement of See also:Paris, to draw up an See also:inventory of the documents which constituted what at that See also:time was known as the Tresor See also:des diaries. This See also:work occupied eleven years. His MS. inventory is preserved in the See also:original and in copy in the Bibliotheque Nationale, and transcriptions are in the See also:national archives in Paris, at the See also:record See also:office in See also:London, and elsewhere. Dupuy's See also:classification is still regarded with respect, but the inventory has been partially replaced by the publication of the Layettes du tresor (four volumes, coming down to 1270; 1863-1902). Dupuy also published, with his See also:brother Jacques, and their friend See also:Nicolas Rigault, the See also:History of Aug. de See also:Thou (162o, 1626). The two See also:brothers then bought from Rigault the See also:post of keeper of the See also:king's library, and See also:drew up a See also:catalogue of the library (Nos. 9352-9354 and Io366-10367 of the Latin collection in the Bibliotheque Nationale). In the course of this work, Dupuy became acquainted with and copied an enormous See also:mass of unpublished documents, which furnished him with the material for some excellent See also:works: Traite des droits et des libertes de l'eglise gallicane, avec See also:les preuves (1639), Histoire de l'ordre militaire des Templiers (1654), Histoire generale du schisme qui a ete clans l'eglise depuis 1378 jusqu'd 1428 (1654), and Histoire du differend entre le See also:page See also:Boniface VIII et le roi Philippe le See also:Bel (1655). These works, especially the last, are important contributions to the history of the relations of See also:church and See also:state in the See also:middle ages. They were written from the Gallican standpoint, i.e. in favour of the rights of the See also:crown in temporal and See also:political matters, and this explains the delay in their publication until after Dupuy's See also:death. He wrote also Traite des regences et des majorites des rois de See also:France (1655) and Recueil des droits du roi (1658).

Dupuy's papers, preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale, were inventoried by See also:

Leon Dorez (Catalogue de la collection Dupuy, 1899). See also L. See also:Delisle's Le See also:Cabinet des manuscrits.de la bibliotheque imperiale. Dupuy died in Paris on the 14th of See also:December 1651.

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