CARDINAL JACQUES DAVY DUPERRON
\kˈɑːdɪnə͡l ʒˈak dˈe͡ɪvi dˈuːpɛɹən], \kˈɑːdɪnəl ʒˈak dˈeɪvi dˈuːpɛɹən], \k_ˈɑː_d_ɪ_n_əl ʒ_ˈa_k d_ˈeɪ_v_i d_ˈuː_p_ɛ_ɹ_ə_n]\
Definitions of CARDINAL JACQUES DAVY DUPERRON
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A French theologian, Pietist, and miscellaneous writer; born at St. Lo, Normandy, or at Bern, Switzerland, 1556; died in Paris, 1618. He was the son of a Protestant minister, but was converted to Catholicism in his youth and had a distinguished ecclesiastical career. "A Treatise on the Sacrament of the Eucharist" is his most celebrated prose effort; as a poet he is remembered for the verses styled "The Temple of Inconstancy".
By Charles Dudley Warner
