. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . y hepreached with re-markable successat Roanne, Avi-gnon, Nimes, Gre-noble, and Mar-seilles. An ac-quaintance withHenry IV ofFrance soon ri-pened into friend-ship, and theArchbishopric of Aries being vacant, the king offered itto Father Coton, who refused the honour. The kinghaving recalled the exiled Jesuits to France, theirenemies could not pardon the influence Father Cotonhad in bringing tliis about, and an attempt was madeto assassinate h
. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . y hepreached with re-markable successat Roanne, Avi-gnon, Nimes, Gre-noble, and Mar-seilles. An ac-quaintance withHenry IV ofFrance soon ri-pened into friend-ship, and theArchbishopric of Aries being vacant, the king offered itto Father Coton, who refused the honour. The kinghaving recalled the exiled Jesuits to France, theirenemies could not pardon the influence Father Cotonhad in bringing tliis about, and an attempt was madeto assassinate him. Some writers have pretendedthat Father Coton was not above suspicion on thedoctrine of regicide, and when Henry IV was assassi-nated, they accused Father Coton of defending Ra-vaillac, the kings murderer. But if his enemies atcourt had any knowledge that he held such viewsthey failed to make it public. Father Coton had for two years previous to thedeath of Henry been confessor to his son, the youngDaupliin. In 1610 the biting satire Anti-Coton, oilest prouv^ que les J^suites sont coupables du parri-cide dHenri IV was followed by many pamphlets. riKRRF, COTTON. for and against the Society. It was an easy task forFather Coton to defend himself against these calum-nies and produce proofs of his innocence, but verydifficult for the author of the libel, who was said tobe Pierre Dumoulin, a Protestant minister of Charen-ton, and an associate of the Calvinists, to substantiateany statement that he had advanced. Father Coton wascontinued in his capacity as confessor to the new king,Louis XIII, which duty he discharged until 1617,when he left the court at the age of fifty-four andwithdrew to the novitiate at Lyons. He then trav-ersed the provinces of the South as a missionary, andwent to Milan, Loreto, and Rome to fulfil the vowsthe reigning king had made to the Blessed Virgin,St. Charles, and St. Peter. He returned to Franceas provincial of the Society and preached at Paris inthe c
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