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Jean Claude
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or JEAN CLAUDE (1619-1687), French Protestant divine, was born at La Sauvetat-du-Dropt near Agen. After studying at Montauban, he entered the ministry in 1645. He was for eight years professor of theology in the Protestant college of Nimes; but in 1661, having successfully opposed a scheme for re-uniting Catholics and Protestants, he was forbidden to preach in Lower Languedoc. In 1662 he obtained a post at Montauban similar to that which he had lost; but after four years he was removed from this also. He next became pastor at Charenton near Paris, where he engaged in controversies with Pierre Nicole ( Reponse aux deux traites intitules la perpetuite de la foi, 1665), Antoine Arnauld ( Reponse au livre de M. Arnauld, 1670), and J. B. Bossuet ( Reponse au livre de M. l'eveque de Meaux, 1683).
On the revocation of the edict of Nantes he fled to Holland, and received a pension from William of Orange, who commissioned him to write an account of the persecuted Huguenots (Plaintes des Protestants cruellement opprimes dans le royaume de France, 1686). The book was translated into English, but by order of James II. both the translation and the original were publicly burnt by the common hangman on the 5th of May 1686, as containing "expressions scandalous to His Majesty the king of France." Other works by him were Reponse au livre de P. Nouet sur l'eucharistie (1668); CEuvres posthumes (Amsterdam, 1688), containing the Traite de la composition d'un sermon, translated into English in 1778.
See biographies by J. P. Niceron and Abel Rotholf de la Deveze; E. Haag, La France protestante, vol. iv. (1884, new edition).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Jean Claude'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/j/jean-claude.html. 1910.
