Antoine Arnauld (lawyer)

Antoine Arnauld was the son of the general advocate of Catherine de' Medici.

[1] Raised a Protestant, he is thought to have converted to Catholicism after the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.

[2] A skilled orator, his most famous speech was in 1594 in favor of the University of Paris and against the Jesuits, decrying their lack of support for Henry IV, newly converted from Protestantism to Catholicism.

The best known of his writings is entitled Le franc et véritable discours du Roi sur le rétablissement qui lui est demandé des Jésuites (1602).

He was married to Catherine Marion de Druy, daughter of Simon Marion, baron de Druy, advocate general of Henry IV.