ALLIX, PIERRE (1641-1717), French Protestant divine, was born at
Alencon. He was pastor first at St Agobile in Champagne, and
then at Charenton, near Paris. The revocation of the edict of
Nantes in 1685 compelled him to take refuge in London, where,
under the sanction of James II., he opened a church for the French
exiles. His reputation for learning was such as to obtain for
him, soon after his arrival, the degree of doctor of divinity
from both universities, and in 1690 he received from Bishop
Burnet the more substantial honour of the treasurership and
a canonry in Salisbury Cathedral. He died at London in March
1717. The works of Allix, which are numerous, are chiefly of
a controversial and apologetic character, and must be used with
caution. In opposition to Bossuet he published Some Remarks
upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches
of Piedmont (1690), and Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical
History of the Ancient Churches of the Albigenses (1692),
with the idea of showing that the Albigenses were not
Manichaeans, but historically identical with the Waldenses.
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