DUVAL, ANDRÉ. – Born in Pontoise in 1564 and died in Paris in 1638. Doctor (1594) and subsequently dean of the Sorbonne, where he was the first holder of the chair of positive theology, established by Henri IV (1597).
He refuted Richer with the work: Elenchus libelli de ecclesiastica et politica potestate (Paris 1612), in a second edition corrected in response to certain remarks by the Roman Inquisition (ibid. 1614). Another notable work: In Item partem Summae D. Thomae commentarii (ibid. 1656).
BIBL.: P. Féret, La faculté de Théologie de Paris et ses docteurs les plus célèbres. Epoque moderne, IV, Paris 1906, pp. 329–39; Hurter, III, cols. 641–42, 1222; A. Ingold, s. V. in DThC, IV, cols. 1967.