Jacques Davy Duperron

Jacques Davy Duperron (born Nov. 25, 1556, Bern—died Sept. 5, 1618, Paris) was a French cardinal, remembered especially for his part in the conversion of King Henry IV of France to Roman Catholicism. The son of a Huguenot refugee from Saint-Lô, Normandy, who gave him an excellent humanist education, he returned to France in 1562 and was introduced to Henry III in 1576. He later abjured Protestantism, took holy orders, and, as a reader in...