Jacques Leschassier

Jacques Leschassier (or Lechassier) (1550 – 1625) was a French jurist and magistrate, known for his erudition and Gallican views.^[1]

Life

He was an avocat of the Parlement of Paris, and then procureur-général of the Parlement. He supported the Salic Law and in 1606 argued the case for Gallican ecclesiastical independence.^[2]

Leschassier put forward proposals around 1597, intended to help Henry IV of France get better control of royal officeholders, by designating the posts as fiefs.^[3]

At the time of the Venetian Interdict, the Venetian diplomat Pietro Priuli recruited Leschassier and Louis Servin to write in Venice's defence.^[4] These works argued that the position of the Church of Venice should be equated with that of the Gallican view of the situation of the Church of France.^[5] Leschassier then became an intimate correspondent of Paolo Sarpi.^[6]

Notes

1. William James Bouwsma (27 June 1990). A Usable Past: Essays in European Cultural History. University of California Press. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-520-06438-6. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
2. Burns, pp. 681–2.
3. Roland Mousnier (1 March 1984). The Institutions of France Under the Absolute Monarchy, 1598-1789: The organs of state and society. University of Chicago Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-226-54328-4. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
4. William James Bouwsma (1968). Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of the Counter Reformation. University of California Press. p. 399. ISBN 978-0-520-05221-5. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
5. J. H. Burns (17 November 1994). The Cambridge History of Political Thought, 1450-1700. Cambridge University Press. p. 251. ISBN 978-0-521-47772-7. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
6. Bouwsma, Venice, p. 525.

External links

• CERL page