Jacques Gillot (jurist)

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 de 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]

Notes

1. Eric Nelson (2005). The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590-1615). Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-7546-3888-9. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
2. René Pintard (2000). Le Libertinage érudit dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle. Slatkine. p. 11. ISBN 978-2-05-101818-0. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
3. Joseph Fr Michaud; Jean Joseph François Poujoulat (1838). 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 (in French). Guyot. p. 473. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
4. CERL page, Gillot, Jacques.
5. René Pintard (2000). Le Libertinage érudit dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle (in French). Slatkine. p. 98. ISBN 978-2-05-101818-0. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
6. the literature of the french renaissance. CUP Archive. p. 233. GGKEY:NNEAZKWSAQX. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
7. Randall C. Zachman (1 September 2008). John Calvin and Roman Catholicism: Critique and Engagement, Then and Now. Baker Academic. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-8010-3597-5. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
8. Jotham Parsons (1 December 2004). The Church in the Republic: Gallicanism & Political Ideology in Renaissance France. CUA Press. p. 130 note 92. ISBN 978-0-8132-1384-2. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
9. William James Bouwsma (1968). Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of the Counter Reformation. University of California Press. p. 547 note 310. ISBN 978-0-520-05221-5. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
10. Eileen Adair Reeves (2008). Galileo's Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror. Harvard University Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-674-02667-4. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
11. Ingrid De Smet (2006). Thuanus: The Making of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617). Librairie Droz. p. 103 note 127. ISBN 978-2-600-01071-9. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
12. Sam Kinser (31 July 1967). The Works of Jacques-Auguste De Thou. Springer. p. 9 note 1. ISBN 978-90-247-0194-0. Retrieved 24 July 2012.

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