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Couet was born to minor nobility, son of Philibert Couet du Vivier et Marie Gohorry, a Huguenot family.
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After the Saint Bartholomew"s Day massacre (1752) he appears to have fled to Scotland for a time. While in Basel, while Couet was still a divinity student, he engaged in a debate with Fausto Sozzini, who was resident in the city 1575-1575, which led to Sozzini"s work on the satisfaction of Christ De Jesu Christo Servatore. After a period in Bourgogne the problems of the Ligue caused him to removed to Basel in 1585.
On 17 July 1590 he was appointed by Henri IV as one of the eight pastors who should preach to him quarterly.
Couet died on 18 january 1608 and was buried in the temple of the Dominicans.
