Charles Perrot (1541–1608) was a French
Reformed
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minister who served in the
Republic of Geneva
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.
Perrot came from a French family who were
Nobles of the Robe and was born in Paris. He studied at the
Genevan Academy and in 1564 became a
minister
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. He married Sarah Cop (daughter of
Michel Cop) in 1566, and became a citizen of Geneva in 1567. Perrot served as a minister in the city from 1568 until his death. He acted as
rector
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at the Academy from 1570-2 and 1588–92.
Scott Manetsch describes Perrot as "an idealist prone to discouragement, a man of deep piety who valued Christian charity as much a theological precision."
Perrot's "pulpit
jeremiad
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s against social injustice and his advocacy for the poor sometimes put him at odds with Geneva's magistrates."
[Manetsch, ''Calvin's Company of Pastors'', p. 54.]
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1541 births
1608 deaths
Clergy from Paris
17th-century clergy from the Republic of Geneva