Guillaume de Lamoignon (1617–1677) was a French jurist. He is known for work which he did towards preparing the codification of French laws. Lamoignon, Guillaume de

He became in 1644 master of requests in the

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. He took an active part in the Fronde of the Parlement against Mazarin.Goyau, Georges. "Family of Lamoignon." The Catholic Encyclopedia
Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 23 May 2021 He became first president of the Parlement in 1658. A distinguished member of the

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,Goyau, Georges. "Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement." The Catholic Encyclopedia
Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. 23 May 2021 he was greatly devoted to the Catholic cause. He induced Colbert to give up the idea of putting back to twenty-seven the age for

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to priesthood, and the years required for

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to twenty for the women and twenty-seven for the men. He had Gallican tendencies, and in 1663 he spoke before the Parlement in favor of the "liberties of the Gallican church" against a thesis suspected of

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. A nephew of Bishop Potier of Beauvais, a close friend of the Jansenist Hermant, Lamoignon was supposed to sympathize with

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, but he chose

René Rapin René Rapin (1621–1687) was a French Jesuit and writer. He was born at Tours and entered the Society of Jesus in 1639. He taught rhetoric, and wrote extensively both in verse and prose. Works His first production, ''Eclogæ Sacræ'' (Paris ...

, a

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, as tutor for his sons, whom he also brought into close acquaintance with

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. When in 1664 the

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deferred to the Parlement a confutation of

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's '' Provinciales'' written by the Jesuits, the decree which condemned this book nevertheless spared the Jesuits. On this occasion Lamoignon said to the king that he had been "a witness of the unfair outbursts of the Jansenists in all the differences they had with the Society of Jesus; and this Jansenist party, which was being formed in the kingdom on the dissemination of the new teaching, was but a cabal which would become pernicious to the State". It was Lamoignon who, having as first president to settle the dispute that had arisen at the

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between the

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and the treasurer regarding a desk, furnished Boileau with the account of this incident from which the latter evolved the celebrated poem of the "Lutrin".

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