Background
Feuardent was born at Coutances, Normandy.
Feuardent was born at Coutances, Normandy.
Having studied humanities at Bayeux, he joined the Friars Minor.
After the novitiate, he was sent to Paris to continue his studies, where he received (1576) the degree of Doctor in Theology and taught at the university. He took a leading part in the political and religious troubles in which France was involved at that time. With Jean Boucher and Guillaume Rose, bishop of Senlis, he was one of the foremost preachers in the cause of the Catholic Ligue.
As Roennus remarks in an appendix to Feuardent"s "Theomachia", there was not a church in Paris in which he had not preached.
Throughout France and beyond the frontiers in Lorraine and Flanders, he was a defender of the Catholic faith. Pierre de l"Etoile, a fierce adversary of the Ligue, recognises in his "Mémoires" Feuardent"s subsequent efforts in pacifying the country.
In his old age he retired to the convent of Bayeux, which he restored and furnished with a good library. He died in Paris.