André Guijon (November, 1548 – September, 1631) was a French churchman and orator. He was born in Autun, the son of Jean Guijon, a physician and Oriental scholar, who travelled in the East and brought back to France a Greek

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copy of the

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, dating from the eleventh century. He had three brothers with more than one title to fame: Jacques, Jean, and Hugues, all three lawyers, writers, and savants. Philibert de la Mare, counsellor at the Parliament of

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, collected the principal works of the four brothers in one volume, in

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of 612 pages, under the title "Jacobi, Joannis, Andreæ et Hugonis fratrum Guiionorum opera varia" (1658). This contained both their

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works and Latin

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s. André became vicar-general to Cardinal de Joyeuse, and afterwards to the

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. He went to

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to be consecrated and came back to France in 1586. His "Remontrance à la cour du Parlement de Normandie sur l'octroy des sentences fulminatoires" is extant. His "Eloge funèbre de Pierre Jeannin" has not been preserved.

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