Pithou

The art, perhaps the most terrible of all the weapons of satire, of making characters without any great violation of probability represent themselves in the most atrocious and despicable light, was never perhaps possessed in perfection except by Pithou and his colleagues and by Butler.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

At least, we have the testimony of Pithou, Seigneur de

The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

Henry IV appointed Pithou procurator general of the Parliament of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Among the other editions, mention may be made of that by Le Conte (Antwerp, 1570), of prior date to the Roman edition and containing the partes decis; that of the brothers Pithou

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

D'Aguesseau declared that the book was "the palladium of France", President Hénault, that "the maxims of Pithou have in a sense the force of laws".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Cresconius is preceded by an index or table of contents (breviarium) of the titles, first edited in 1588 by Pithou.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

The best-known, previous to the nineteenth century, are those of the brothers Pithou (Paris, 1687), Freiesleben (Prague, 1728), and the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Francis I, was held the theological conference of 4 May, 1600, between the Catholics (Cardinal du Perron, de Thou, Pithou) and the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

The Declaration of 1682 and the work of Pithou codified the principles of Gallicanism, but did not create them.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Passerat, poet and commentator on Rabelais; Chrestien and Pithou, two Protestants discreetly converted by force of events -- met in a room of Gillot's house, where, according to the legend, Boileau was afterwards born, and there concocted the venom of their pamphlet.

A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878