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A R N A U D. 327 in the year 1335, or 1345, or, according to others, in 1376. He practiird phyfic at Paris for fome time; but, hav- ing advanced fome new doctrines, he drew upon himielf the refentment of the univerfity ; and his friends, fearing he might be arrefted, perfuadcd him to ru'ire from that city. Some authors have alfo affirmed, that the inquifitora of the faith, afTembled at Tarafcon, by order of Clement V. condemned the chimerical notions of this learned phyTician. Upon his leaving France, he retired to Sicily, where he was received by king Frederic of Arragon with the Created marks ot kmd- nefs and efteem. Some time afterwards, this prince fent him to France, to attend the fame pope Clement in an illnefs; and Arnaud was (hip'-vrecked on the coaft of Genoa, in the year 1309, though fome fay it was in 1310, and others in 1313. The works of Arnaud, with his life prefixed, were primed in one volume folio, at Lyons, 1520 > and at Bafil '585, with the notes of Nicholas Tolerus. ARNAUD (ANTHONY), born at Paris 1550, where he purfued his ftudi^s, and took his degree of Matter of Arts in 1573. Some time after, he was admitted advocate of the parliament of Paris, in which capacity he acquired great re- putation by his integrity and extraordinary eloquence. Henry IV. had great efteem for Arnaud ; and his majefty once carried the duke of Savoy on purpofe to hear him plead in parliament [A]. He was appointed counfellor and attor- ney-general to queen Catherine of Medicis. Mr. Marion, afterwards advocate-general, was one day fo pleafed with hearing him, that he took nim into his coach, carried him, home to dinner, and placed him next his eldelt daughter, Catherine Marion : after dinner, he took him afide, and afked him what he thought of his daughter ; and finding that he had conceived a high opinion of her, he gave her to him in marriage. One of the moft famous caufes which Arnaud pleaded, was that of the univerfity againft the Jefuit?, in 1594 [B], There was published about this time a little [A] P. Matthieu fays, they went into lumny, fines the true murderer had the gilt chamber, whence they uld been found, and Bellinger, though >n- hear without being fe.n. Hift. Hen. nocent, h.'.d been put to the rack ? Hr- JV. The qucftion which Mr. Arnaud naud pleaded tor the woman, and gained then pleaded, was, Whether a woman, the caule. named Domenchin, whofe fon had been [z] He would not take the present murdered, and who had charged one which the univerlity lent him, and de- Bellanger wiih the murder, ought to fired to plead the caufc gratis, u, n have been condemned as guilty cf ra- which the univeility palled an, ac>

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