The Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 2: Of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Amelotte was superior of the house of the congregation of the Oratory, Rue St. Honoré, Pans, and assistant to the superior general of the congregation. He was the theological adviser of the Chancellor Seguier, whom he had prevailed on to withhold his licence h'om the Port Royal New Testament. Ame lotte, in the latter part of his life, was anxious to obtain the bishopric of Sarlat in Peri gord, but did not 511c He complained to his friends of this failure, which he as cribed to the neglect of persons of influence whom he had done much to oblige. He died at Paris, 7th October, 1678, aged seventy two, according to Niceron. Le Long, in a note to his Bibliotheque Historique de la France, places his death in 1675.

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