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See also:PITHOU, See also:PIERRE (1539-1596) , See also:French lawyer and See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Troyes on the 1st of See also:November 1539. His See also:taste for literature was See also:early seen, and his See also:father Pierre (1496-1556) cultivated it to the utmost. He was called to the See also:Paris See also:bar in 1560. On the outbreak of the second See also:war of See also:religion in 1567, Pithou, who was a Calvinist, withdrew to See also:Sedan and afterwards to See also:Basel, whence he returned to See also:France on the publication of the See also:edict of pacification. Soon after-wards he accompanied the due de See also:Montmorency on his See also:embassy to See also:England, returning shortly before the See also:massacre of St See also:Bartholomew, in which he narrowly escaped with his See also:life. Next See also:year he followed the example of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry of See also:Navarre by abjuring the See also:Protestant faith. Henry, shortly after his own See also:accession to the See also:throne of France, recognized Pithou's talents and services by bestowing upon him various legal appointments. The most important See also:work of his life was his co-operation in the See also:production of the See also:Satire Menippee (1593), which did so much to damage the cause of the See also:League; the harangue of the Sieur d'Aubray is usually attributed to his See also:pen. He died at Nogentsur-See also:Seine on the 1st of November 1596. His valuable library, specially See also:rich in See also:MSS., was for the most See also:part transferred to what is now the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.
Pithou wrote a See also:great number of legal and See also:historical books, besides preparing See also:editions of several See also:ancient: authors. His earliest publication was Adversariorum subsecivorum See also:lib. II. (1565). Perhaps his edition of the Leges Visigothorum (1579) was his most valuable contribution to historical See also:science; in the same See also:line he edited the Capitula of See also:Charlemagne, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis the Pious, and See also:Charles the Bald in 1588, and he also assisted his See also:brother See also:Francois in preparing an edition of the
Corpus See also:juris canonici (1687). His Libertes de l'eglise gallicane (1594) is reprinted in his See also:Opera sacra juridica his orica miscellanea collecta (1609). In classical literature he was the first who made the See also:world acquainted with the Fables of See also:Phaedrus (1596) ; he also edited the Pervigilium Veneris (1587), and See also:Juvenal and See also:Persius (1585).
Three of Pithou's See also:brothers acquired distinction as jurists: See also:JEAN (1524–1602), author of Traite de See also:police et du gouvernement See also:des republiques, and, in collaboration with his twin brother See also:NIcoLAS (1524–1598), of Institution du mariage chretien; and FRANCOIS (1543–1621), author of Glossarium ad libros capitularium (1588), Traite de l'See also:excommunication et de l'interdit, &c. (1587).
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