MONLUC, JEAN de. - Diplomat, b. at Condom in 1508, d. at Toulouse on 13 April 1579. He belonged to the Dominican Order and in 1553 was appointed bishop of Valence and Die. In the service of Francis I and Henry II he carried out important diplomatic missions with notable success: in 1560 in Scotland; in 1572-73 in Poland, where he succeeded in securing the royal crown for Henry of Valois.

From 1560 M. drew secretly closer to the Calvinists, and three years later he was accused of heresy before the Tribunal of the Roman Inquisition, together with other French prelates. In 1566 Pius V declared certain bishops deposed, among them M.; but the latter, protected by the government and the Parliament of France, retained his office. He then gave his support to Catherine de' Medici in the policy of compromise and tolerance that she initially pursued toward the Calvinists. In the last years of his life M. probably drifted away from the Protestants.

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BIBL.: H. Reynard, J. de M., évêque de Valence et de Die, Paris 1893; Pastor VII, VIII, IX, passim.

Roberto Palmarocchi

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