Jacques Coitier (c. 1430 – 22 October 1506) was a French doctor. He was chief physician to
Louis XI of France
Louis XI (3 July 1423 – 30 August 1483), called "Louis the Prudent" (french: le Prudent), was King of France from 1461 to 1483. He succeeded his father, Charles VII.
Louis entered into open rebellion against his father in a short-lived revo ...
and president of the
Chambre des comptes.
Coitier was born at
Poligny Poligny is the name of several communes in France:
* Poligny, Aube
* Poligny, Hautes-Alpes
* Poligny, Jura
* Poligny, Seine-et-Marne
Poligny () is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
...
,
Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté (, ; ; Frainc-Comtou: ''Fraintche-Comtè''; frp, Franche-Comtât; also german: Freigrafschaft; es, Franco Condado; all ) is a cultural and historical region of eastern France. It is composed of the modern departments of Doubs, ...
. His name is spelled in several ways, most often Coictier (the spelling used by
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...
in his novel ''
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame''), but also ''Coittier'', ''Cotier'', ''Coytier'' or ''Coctier''. An analysis of his signatures by Achille Chereau has allowed ''Coitier'' to become the standard spelling - this was the name cited most often in medical annals.
[Achille Chéreau, ''Jacques Coitier, médecin de Louis XI, roi de France'', Mareschal, 1861] He died in Paris.
Bibliography
* ''Mémoires de Philippe de Commines'' in ''Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de France'', Michaud et Poujalat, Paris, 1837
* ''Nouvelle Biographie Générale'', t11, Firmin Didot, 1855, pp. 86–89
* Masson et Asselin, ''Dictionnaire Encyclopédique des Sciences Médicales'', t. 18, 1876, pp. 717–718
* ''Bulletin de la Société française d'histoire de la médecine'', n°11, 1912, pp. 315–322
* Émile Aron, ''Louis XI et ses guérisseurs'', CLD, 1983
* Victor Advielle, ''Discussion historique sur le véritable lieu de naissance de Jacques Coitier, médecin du roi Louis XI'', H. Damelet, 1865
* Achille Chéreau, ''Jacques Coitier, médecin de Louis XI, roi de France'', Mareschal, 1861
References
1430s births
1506 deaths
15th-century French people
People from Jura (department)
French surgeons
15th-century French physicians
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