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Jean-Paul Perrin
Jean-Paul Perrin (1580-?), sometimes incorrectly called Jean Paul Perrin Lionnois as he was originally from Lyon, was a French preacher and Protestantism, Protestant historian in the 16th and 17th centuries, and pastor of a congregation at Nyons in Dauphiné. Works He is best known for his ''Histoire des Vaudois'', commissioned by the Provincial Synod of the Reformed Church of Dauphiné in March 1605, completed around 1609 and published on January 1, 1618, in Geneva. This 596-page work, also known as ''Histoire des Chrestiens Albigeois'', is based on numerous sources gathered mainly between 1602 and 1603 by Calvinism, Calvinists (including some Waldenses) with a view to defending the thesis that the Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church is not descended from the Early Christianity, primitive Church, but has departed from it, unlike the Catharism, Albigenses and the Waldensians, Waldenses and other groups before them, who, according to Perrin, would have maintained the true fait ...
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Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne. The City of Lyon proper had a population of 522,969 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of , but together with its suburbs and exurbs the Lyon metropolitan area had a population of 2,280,845 that same year, the second most populated in France. Lyon and 58 suburban municipalities have formed since 2015 the Lyon Metropolis, Metropolis of Lyon, a directly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of most urban issues, with a population of 1,411,571 in 2019. Lyon is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region and seat of the Departmental council (France), Departmental Coun ...
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Jean Crespin
Jean Crespin (c.1520 – 12 April 1572) was a French Protestant lawyer who became a significant printer and martyrologist in Geneva. Life He was born at Arras and studied law at Leuven. In 1540 he was in Paris, where he worked with his friend François Baudouin under the leading jurist and advocate Charles Du Moulin, and became himself advocate at the Parlement of Paris. He became interested in the doctrines of the Reformed Church; and when he returned to Arras, his relations with the Protestants caused him to be treated as a heretic. In 1545 he went to Strasbourg, where he married. In 1548 he moved near his friend John Calvin John Calvin (; frm, Jehan Cauvin; french: link=no, Jean Calvin ; 10 July 150927 May 1564) was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system ...; with his family he settled in Geneva, where he established a printing-press. In 1555 he received ci ...
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