Antoine Arnaud was a French advocate. He was born in 1560 and died in 1619. He distinguished himself as a zealousdefender of the cause of Henry IV, and for his powerful and successful defence of the University of Paris against the Jesuits in 1594. His family formed the nucleus of the sect of the Jansenists in France.
Antoine Arnaud (the Great Arnauld) was a French theologian. He was born in 1612 at Paris and died in 1694. A son of Antoine Arnaud, he devoted himself to theology, and was received in 1641 among the doctors of the Sorbonne. He engaged in all the quarrels of the French Jansenists with the Jesuits, the clergy, and the government, was the chief Jansenist writer, and was considered their head. Excluded from the Sorbonne, he retired to Port Royal, where he wrote, in conjunction with his friend Nicole, a celebrated system of logic (hence called the Port Royal Logic). On account of persecution he fled, in 1679, to the Netherlands. His works, which are mainly controversies with the Jesuits or the Calvinists, are very voluminous. Research Antoine Arnaud
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