Pierre Charron
Overview
Pierre Charron was a French
16th-century Catholic theologian and philosopher, and a disciple and contemporary of Michel Montaigne.
Pierre Charron was born in Paris
, one of the twenty-five children of a bookseller. After studying law
at Orléans
and Bourges
he practiced as an advocate, for a few years. He then entered the church and soon became a popular priest, rising to become a canon.
He moved to the south-west of France, invited by Arnaud de Pontac, Bishop of Bazas.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
16th-century Catholic theologian and philosopher, and a disciple and contemporary of Michel Montaigne.
Pierre Charron was born in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, one of the twenty-five children of a bookseller. After studying law
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
at Orléans
Orléans
-Prehistory and Roman:Cenabum was a Gallic stronghold, one of the principal towns of the Carnutes tribe where the Druids held their annual assembly. It was conquered and destroyed by Julius Caesar in 52 BC, then rebuilt under the Roman Empire...
and Bourges
Bourges
Bourges is a city in central France on the Yèvre river. It is the capital of the department of Cher and also was the capital of the former province of Berry.-History:...
he practiced as an advocate, for a few years. He then entered the church and soon became a popular priest, rising to become a canon.
He moved to the south-west of France, invited by Arnaud de Pontac, Bishop of Bazas.
Quotations
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.
As quoted in Treasury of Thought : Forming an encyclopædia of quotation from ancient and modern authors (1894) edited by Maturin Murray Ballou|Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 123
: Treatise on Wisdom (1601)
The true science and study of man is man.
Book I, Preface, as quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999) by Elizabeth M. Knowles