PATRIARCHAL AUTHORITY

Patriarchal Authority

Patriarchal Authority

In September 1583, at the age of nineteen, Pierre Coton ran away to connect the Jesuits in Savoy. Later confessor to Kings Henry IV and Louis XIII and one of the most commemorated clerics of his age, Coton started his devout life under a cloud. His dad, Guichard Coton, had increased him with the aspiration of glimpsing him become a counselor in Parlement and was annoyed at his noise betrayal. (Modern History 1996) The note Guichard Coton dispatched Pierre when he wise that he had went into the Jesuit novitiate is worth citing at length. In ...