Barnabe Brisson (1531-91) French philologist and jurist. President of Parliament (Parlement) of Paris 1588 during the French Religious Wars. Executed by extreme members of the League while Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, was absent. Engraving from From 'Icones Virorum' by Friedrich Roth-Scholtz (Nuremberg, 1725).

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Barnabe Brisson (1531-91) French philologist and jurist. President of Parliament (Parlement) of Paris 1588 during the French Religious Wars. Executed by extreme members of the League while Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, was absent. Engraving from From 'Icones Virorum' by Friedrich Roth-Scholtz (Nuremberg, 1725).

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