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Jean Papire Masson Latin: Papirius (1544 in Saint-Germain-Laval, Loire – 1611) was a French humanist historian, known also as a geographer, biographer, literary critic and jurist.

Life

Masson was initially a Jesuit, but left the Society. He studied law at Angers under François Baudouin around 1570. He became close to the circle of Catherine de' Medici, particularly to Carlo Boni, and became professor of law at Angers, where Boni was bishop. Later he was librarian to the Chevalier de Chiverny, was avocat to the Parlement of Paris, and married.

Works

He defended Antoine Matharel against François Hotman. He may in fact have written much of Matharel's Responsio (1575) to Hotman's monarchomach work Francogallia. The debate became a pamphlet war and slanging match.

The Latin life of John Calvin attributed to Masson had a reputation in its time as fair-minded.

Masson discovered a manuscript of Agobard in 1604, and edited it.

References

1. Also Jean Papyre Masson
2. ^ Jean Antoine Rigoley de Juvigny; François Grudé de La Croix Du Maine; Antoine Du Verdier; Bernard de La Monnoye (1772). Bibliothèque Françoise De La Croix Du Maine. Vol. 2. Paris: Saillant & Nyon / Lambert. p. 217.
3. Randall C. Zachman (1 September 2008). John Calvin and Roman Catholicism: Critique and Engagement, Then and Now. Baker Academic. pp. 34–5. ISBN 978-0-8010-3597-5. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
4. Henry Heller (2003). Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth-Century France. University of Toronto Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-8020-3689-6. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
5. Quentin Skinner (30 November 1978). The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: The Age of Reformation. Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press. p. 318. ISBN 978-0-521-29435-5. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
6. François Hotman; Ralph E. Giesey; J. H. M. Salmon (10 June 2010). Francogallia. Cambridge University Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-521-15318-8. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
7. Denis Pallier (1975). Recherches sur l'imprimerie à Paris pendant la Ligue, 1585-1594 (in French). Librairie Droz. p. 46 note 29. ISBN 978-2-600-03432-6. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
8. Paul-Alexis Mellet (2007). Les Traités Monarchomaques: Confusion des Temps, Résistance Armée et Monarchie Parfaite, 1560-1600 (in French). Librairie Droz. pp. 340–1. ISBN 978-2-600-01139-6. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
9. Irena Dorota Backus (2008). Life Writing in Reformation Europe: Lives of Reformers by Friends, Disciples and Foes. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-7546-6055-2. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
10. Courtney M. Booker (12 August 2009). Past Convictions: The Penance of Louis the Pious and the Decline of the Carolingians. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 321. ISBN 978-0-8122-4168-6. Retrieved 28 July 2012.

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