"Legist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of his life Montaigne enjoyed the friendship of a disciple who was already celebrated for his eloquence as a preacher. PIERRE CHARRON (1541-1603), legist and theologian, under the influence of Montaigne's ideas, aspired to be a philosopher. It was as a theologian that he wrote his book of the Trois Verites, which attempts to demonstrate the existence of God, the truth of Christianity, and the exclusive orthodoxy of the ...
— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden |
