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PELLICIER, GUILLAUME (c. 1490-1568)

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PELLICIER, GUILLAUME (c. 1490-1568)

PELLICIER, See also:
GUILLAUME
GUILLAUME, JEAN BAPTISTE CLAUDE EUGENE (1822-1905)
GUILLAUME (c. 1490-1568) , See also:

French See also:

PRELATE (Lat. praelatus, set above, from praefero, prefer)

prelate and diplomatist, was educated by his See also:

UNCLE

uncle, the See also:

bishop of Maguelonne, whom he succeeded in 1529. In 1536 he had the seat of his bishopric transferred to See also:

MONTPELLIER

Montpellier. Appointed See also:

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador at See also:

Venice in 1539, he fulfilled his See also:

MISSION

mission to the entire See also:

SATISFACTION (Lat. salisfacerc, to satisfy)

satisfaction of See also:

Francis I., but on the See also:

DISCOVERY

discovery of the See also:

SYSTEM

system of espionage he had employed the See also:

king had to recall him in 1542. Returning to his See also:

DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese, he was imprisoned in the See also:

CHATEAU (from Lat. castellum, fortress, through O. Fr. chastel, chasteau)

chateau of See also:

BEAUCAIRE

Beaucaire for his tolerance of the Reformers, so he replaced his former See also:

INDULGENCE (Lat. indulgentia, indulgere, to grant, concede)

indulgence by severity, and the end of his episcopate was disturbed by religious struggles. He was a See also:

man of wide learning, a humanist and a friend of humanists, and took a keen See also:

INTEREST

interest in the natural sciences. See J. See also:

ZELLER, EDUARD (1814-1908)

Zeller, La Diplomatie francaise . . . d'apres le correspondance de G. Pellicier (See also:

Paris, 1881) ; and A. Tausserat-Radel, Correspondance politique de Guillaume Pellicier (Paris, 1899).

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