Jacques Gillot (jurist) explained

Jacques Gillot (1550? – 1619) was a French priest and jurist, and reputed author, a Gallican opponent of the Society of Jesus.^[1]

Gillot was a councillor-clerk of the Parlement of Paris, and also a canon of the Sainte-Chapelle. He was notorious for associating with freethinkers; the Queen called him "the Lutheran priest".^[2] He was also Dean of Langres Cathedral.^[3]

One work where Gillot's part is attested is Satyre Ménippée de la vertu du catholicon d'Espagne et de la tenue des éstats de Paris (1599)^[4] Gillot was a reputed collaborator in the Satire Ménippée.^[5] The other authors are given as: Pierre Leroy (a canon of Rouen), Pierre Pithou, Nicolas Rapin, Florent Chretien, and Jean Passerat.^[6]

The Vita Calvini of Jean Papire Masson was often incorrectly attributed to Gillot in the 17th century.^[7] The Traictez des droicts et libertez de L'Eglise gallicane (1609) is traditionally attributed to Gillot, but on unclear grounds.^[8]

Gillot was a correspondent of Paolo Sarpi,^[9] and was one of the anti-Jesuit circle that circulated the unlikely story of Pierre Coton and the questions he had supposedly prepared to ask an exorcised spirit.^[10] Others in his correspondence network were Isaac Casaubon^[11] and Joseph Scaliger.^[12]

External links

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Notes and References

1. Book: Eric Nelson. The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590-1615). 24 July 2012. 2005. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. 978-0-7546-3888-9. 130.
2. Book: René Pintard. Le Libertinage érudit dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle. 24 July 2012. 2000. Slatkine. 978-2-05-101818-0. 11.
3. Book: Joseph Fr Michaud. Jean Joseph François Poujoulat. Nouvelle collection des mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de France, depuis le XIIIe siècle jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe: précédés de notices pour caractériser chaque auteur des mémoires et son époque, suivis de l'analyse des docoments historiques qui s'y rapportent. ¬Le Duc de Bouillon, Le duc d'Angoulème, Villeroy, de Thou, Choisnyn, Gillot, Merle, Saint-Auban, Louise Bourgeois, Dubois, Groulard, Marillac. 24 July 2012. 1838. Guyot. 473. fr.
4. http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp00118204 CERL page, Gillot, Jacques
5. Book: René Pintard. Le Libertinage érudit dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle. 24 July 2012. 2000. Slatkine. 978-2-05-101818-0. 98. fr.
6. Book: the literature of the french renaissance. 1972. 24 July 2012. CUP Archive. 233. GGKEY:NNEAZKWSAQX.
7. Book: Randall C. Zachman. John Calvin and Roman Catholicism: Critique and Engagement, Then and Now. 24 July 2012. 1 September 2008. Baker Academic. 978-0-8010-3597-5. 36.
8. Book: Jotham Parsons. The Church in the Republic: Gallicanism & Political Ideology in Renaissance France. 24 July 2012. 1 December 2004. CUA Press. 978-0-8132-1384-2. 130 note 92.
9. Book: William James Bouwsma. William James Bouwsma. Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of the Counter Reformation. 24 July 2012. 1968. University of California Press. 978-0-520-05221-5. 547 note 310.
10. Book: Eileen Adair Reeves. Galileo's Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror. registration. 24 July 2012. 2008. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-02667-4. 123.
11. Book: Ingrid De Smet. Thuanus: The Making of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617). 24 July 2012. 2006. Librairie Droz. 978-2-600-01071-9. 103 note 127.
12. Book: Sam Kinser. The Works of Jacques-Auguste De Thou. 24 July 2012. 31 July 1967. Springer. 978-90-247-0194-0. 9 note 1.