Jaques Couet du Vivier (Couët) (

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

1546 -

Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...

, 18 January 1608) was a

Huguenot The Huguenots ( , also , ) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Be ...

pastor. Couet was born to minor nobility, son of Philibert Couet du Vivier et Marie Gohorry, a

family. After the

St. Bartholomew's Day massacre The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (french: Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) during the French War ...

(1572) he appears to have fled to Scotland for a time. While in Basel, while Couet was still a divinity student, he engaged in a debate with

Fausto Sozzini Fausto Paolo Sozzini, also known as Faustus Socinus ( pl, Faust Socyn; 5 December 1539 – 4 March 1604), was an Italian theologian and, alongside his uncle Lelio Sozzini, founder of the Non-trinitarian Christian belief system known as Socinian ...

, who was resident in the city 1575-1575, which led to Sozzini's work on the satisfaction of Christ ''De Jesu Christo Servatore''. After a period in Bourgogne the problems of the Ligue caused him to remove to Basel in 1585. Afterwards Couet became minister of the French

church in Basel, but when normal conditions resumed continued to journey to and preach in Paris. On 17 July 1590 he was appointed by

Henri IV Henry IV (french: Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarc ...

as one of the eight pastors who should preach to him quarterly. Couet died on 18 January 1608 and was buried in the temple of the Dominicans. He published several works including in 1600 a transcript of ''La Conférence faicte à Nancy'' between a Jesuit, a capuchin and two Huguenots. He amassed a large and unusual library which after his death was inherited by his grandson, a lawyer also called Jacques Couet du Vivier.

Philip Benedict Philip Benedict is an American historian of the Protestant Reformation in Europe, currently holding the title of Professor Emeritus (profeseur honoraire) at the University of Geneva’s Institute for Reformation History (l'Institut d'histoire de ...

The faith and fortunes of France's Huguenots, 1600-85 - 2001 Page 180

Works

* Response chrestienne et tres-nécessaire en ce temps, à l'épistre d'un certain François qui s'est efforcé de maintenir l'opinion de ceux qui croient la présence du corps de Christ dans le pain de la Cène, et mesme en tous lieux, escrite et mise en lumière par Jaques Couet,... 1588 * Refutation des mensonges mis en avant par un qui sous le masque du nom de Nicolas d'Aubenerd se presente en un libelle diffamatoyre, intitulé: Response brève aux medisances calomnies & injures. 1593 * Responses chrestienes aux doctrines non chrestienes, contenues ès libelles diffamatoires d'Antoyne Lescaille: Avec une Remonstrance nécessaire adressée audit Lescaille. Par Léonard Constant. de l'imprimerie de Iacob Stoer. 1593. * Apologia de iustificatione nostri coram Deo: in qua Ecclesias Gellicas Reformatas in hoc praecipuo doctrinae Christianae capite ... unum & idem, semtire adversus quorundam Schismaticorum calumnias, maninifestissimè icdemonstratur. 1594 * De Iesu Christo servatore, hoc est cur & qua ratione Iesus Christus noster seruator sit, Fausti Socini Senensis disputatio. repondes Iacobo Coveto. Typis Alexii Rodecii. 1594 * Advertissement et requeste tres chrestienne de Notre Seigneur Iesus Christ, a toutes les Eglises Protestantes uisont soubs la domination du Roy tres-Chrestien. Avec Le sommaire de la doctrine de M. Theodore de Beze & de M. Jacques Couët, & Leonard Constant, Ministre de l'Église Françoise de Basle. Editor Philippe du Pré, 1596. * Antwort auf ein Schreiben von der Gegenwärtigkeit des Leibes und Blutes Christi im Abendmahl. 1599 * La conference faicte a Nancy, entre un docteur iesuite accompagné d'vn Capuchin, & deux Ministres de la parole de Diev: descrite par Iaqves Covet, Parisien... Imprimé à Basle. M. DC. (German translation: Collation oder Gesprech zu Nancy gehalten zwischen einem Jesuitischen Doktor und zweyen Dienern des Worts Gottes 1601)

References

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