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a famous French jurist, was born at St. Remy, in Provence, in 1729, and died at Aix in 1814. He defended the rights of the Galtacan Church against the pretensions of the Roman see, and published Dictionnaire de Droit Canonique (Avignon, 1761, and since): — Institutes du Droit Canonique (translated from the Latin of Lancelot, Lyons, 1770, 3 volumes): — Les Libertes de l'glise Gallicane (ibid. 1771, 5 volumes). See Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religieuses, s.v. (B.P.)