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Nicolas Coeffeteau
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or NICOLAS COEFFETEAU (1574-1623), French theologian, poet and historian, was born at Saint-Calais. He entered the Dominican order and lectured on philosophy at Paris, being also "ordinary preacher" to Henry IV., and afterwards ambassador at Rome. In 1606 he was vicar-general of the congregation of France, and received from Marie de' Medici the revenues of the sees of Lombez and Saintes. He also administered the diocese of Metz, and was nominated to that of Marseilles in 1621, but illhealth obliged him here to take a coadjutor. Coeffeteau won considerable distinction in the controversy against the Protestant 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 in 1623 he was engaged on a translation of the New Testament which is still in manuscript.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Nicolas Coeffeteau'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/n/nicolas-coeffeteau.html. 1910.
