ARGENTRE, CHARLES DU PLESSIS d'. - French theologian, b. at the castle of Plessis, near Vitré, on 16 May 1673; d. at Tulle on 27 Oct. 1740. He studied at the Sorbonne and received his doctorate in 1700. In 1699 he was ordained priest. He subsequently became dean of Laval, vicar general of Tréguier (1707), royal chaplain (1709), and bishop of Tulle (1723).
Among his numerous theological and philosophical works, the following deserve mention: Analyse de la foi divine (Lyons, 1698); Elementa theologica, in which he denies the infallibility of the Pope (Paris, 1702); Explication des Sacraments de l'Eglise (Tulle, 1734); and, most important of all, Collectio judiciousum de notis erroribus qui ab initio saeculi XII... in Ecclesia proscripti sunt et notati (Paris, 1724-36). He edited the Works of the theologian Martino Grandin (5 vols., Paris, 1710-1712), to which he added several important theological dissertations of his own.