Background
Pierre François le Courayer was born at Rouen on the 17th of November 1681.
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Pierre Francois Le Courayer
Pierre François le Courayer was a French Roman Catholic theological writer.
Career
Pierre François le Courayer conducted a correspondence with Archbishop Wake on the subject of episcopal succession in England, which supplied him with material for his work, Dissertation sur la validity des ordinations des Anglais et sur la succession des ivtques de I'Eglise anglicane, avec les preuves justificatives des fails avancis (Brussels, 1723; Eng. trans. byWilliams, London, 1725; reprinted Oxford, 1844, with memoir of the author), an attempt to prove that there has been no break in the line of ordination from the apostles to the English clergy. His opinions exposed him to a prosecution, and with the help of Bishop Atterbury, then in exile in Paris, he took refuge in England, where he was presented by the university of Oxford with a doctor's degree. In 1736 he published a French translation of Paolo Sarpi's History of the Council of Trent, and dedicated it to Queen Caroline, from whom he received a pension of £200 a year. Besides this he translated Sleidan's History of the Reformation, and wrote several theological works.
Religion
COURAYER, PIERRE FRANCOIS LE, French Roman Catholic theological writer, was born at Rouen on the 17th of November 1681.
In his will, dated two years before his death, he declared himself still a member of the Roman Catholic Church, although dissenting from many of its opinions.
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Religion
Roman Catholic