Jérôme Bignon (1589-1656), un juriste érudit et dévot dans la République des lettres à l’âge confessionnel

Abstract

Advocate General in the Parliament of Paris, Jérôme Bignon is remembered in history both as one of the great names of parliamentary eloquence, and as a highly respected scholar of the Republic of Letters for his erudition. With the help of his Vie published in 1747 by the Abbé Pérau, this article tries to better identify the links between the legal culture of a high-ranking officer, his public career, and his scholarly research, in which religious controversies occupy a central part. This also leads us to take into consideration the very great place he gives to Catholic devotion.

Keywords

• Bignon Jérôme (1589-1656)
• Catholic Reformation
• Jansenism
• Republic of Letters
• public prosecutor