DUVAL, ANDRÉ. - Born at Pontoise in 1564 and died in Paris in 1638. Doctor (1594) and later dean of the Sorbonne, where he was the first holder of the chair of positive theology, established by Henry IV (1597).
He refuted Richer with the work: *Elenchus libelli de ecclesiastica et politica potestate* (Paris 1612), in a second edition corrected for some notes from the Roman Inquisition (1614). Another notable work: *In Il'mo partem Summae D. Thomae commentarii* (1636).
BIBL.: P. Féret, *La faculté de Théologie de Paris et ses docteurs les plus célèbres. Époque moderne*, IV, Paris 1906, pp. 329-302; Hurter, III, cols. 641-42, 1222; A. Ingold, s.V. in *DThC*, IV, cols. 1967; Pietro Palazzini