Nicolas Coeffeteau (1574 – 21 April 1623) was a French

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and

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born at

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. He entered the

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and lectured on

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, being also ordinary preacher to Henry IV, and afterwards ambassador at

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. In 1606 he was vicar-general of the congregation of France, and received from

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the revenues of the sees of

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and Saintes. He also administered the

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, and was nominated to the

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. Coeffeteau won considerable distinction in the controversy against the

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reformers and also wrote a ''History of Rome from Augustus to Constantine''. Many of his theological writings were collected in one volume (Paris, 1622), and at the time of his death he was engaged on a translation of the

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which he left in manuscript. He was buried in the now demolished church of the Couvent des Jacobins in Paris. He was acclaimed for his command of the French language.

Claude Favre de Vaugelas Claude Favre de Vaugelas (6 January 1585 – 26 February 1650) was a Savoyard grammarian and man of letters. Although a lifelong courtier, Claude Favre was widely known by the name of one of the landed estates he owned as ''seigneur'' of Vau ...

cited him as one of the two masters of the language at the time -''"Nicolas Coeffeteau, dominicain, évêque de Marseille, un des fondateurs de la prose française, 1574-1623"''.

Works

*''Premier Essay des questions théologiques traitées en nostre langue selon le stile de S. Thomas et des autres scolastiques'' (1607) *''Harangue funebre prononcee à Paris en l'eglise de sainct Benoist, au service faict pour le repos de l'ame de Henry IIII'' (1610). Texte en ligne

*''Response au livre intitulé Le Mystère d'iniquité, du Philippe de Mornay, sieur Du Plessis'' (1614) *''Response au manifeste publié par les Perturbateurs du repos de l'Estat'' (1617). Online text

*''Tableau des passions humaines, de leurs causes et de leurs effets'' (1620). Online text

*''Examen du livre du sieur Du Plessis contre la messe, composé il y a environ dix-huit ans par messire Jacques Davy, maintenant Jacques-Davy Duperron, cardinal Du Perron et publié par messire Nicolas Coeffeteau'' (1620) *''Œuvres du R. P. en Dieu F. Nic. Coëffeteau, contenant un nouveau Traicté des noms de l'Eucharistie, auquel est refuté tout ce que les Srs Du Plessis, Casaubon et M.

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, ministre de Charenton, ont escrit sur ce sujet contre la doctrine de l'Église, avec divers autres traictez ci-devant publiez par le mesme autheur'' (1622) *''Histoire romaine, contenant tout ce qui s'est passé de plus mémorable depuis le commencement de l'empire d'

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, jusqu'à celui de Constantin le Grand. Avec l'Épitome de Florus'' (1623). Online text

Mode texte

*''Les Merveilles de la Sainte Eucharistie discourues et défendues contre les infidelles'' (1631)

Translations

*''Histoire romaine de Lucius Annaeus Florus mise en nostre langue par F. Nicolas Coeffeteau'' (1615) *''La Montaigne Saincte de la tribulation, qui est un traicté des afflictions et de leurs remèdes, composé premièrement en italien par le Révérend Père Jacques Affinati, et puis mis en françois par F.-N. Coeffeteau'' (translated from Giacomo Affinati d'Acuto, 1620) *''Histoire de Poliarque et d'Argénis, par F. N. Coeffeteau évêque de Marseille'' (abridged translation from John Barclay's book the

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, 1624) *''Tableau de la pénitence de la Magdeleine, par F. Nicolas Coëffeteau. Nouvelle édition enrichie de plusieurs discours'' (translated from ''De Maria Magdalena'' by

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, 1625)

References

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