ARGENTRE, CHARLES DU PLESSIS d'. — French theologian, born at the château of Plessis near Vitré on 16 May 1673, died at Tulle on 27 October 1740. He studied at the Sorbonne and obtained his doctorate in 1700. He was ordained priest in 1699. He later 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 papal infallibility (Paris 1702); *Explication des Sacraments de l'Eglise* (Tulle 1734); and the most important of all, *Collectio judiciorum de novis erroribus qui ab initio saeculi XII... in Ecclesia proscripti sunt et notati* (Paris 1724-36). He also edited the works of the theologian Martino Grandin (5 vols., Paris 1710-1712), to which he added some of his own important theological dissertations.