Father Cotton

See also: Knitting machine

Pierre Knitting machine (1564 - 1626), French Jesuit, born with Néronde (the Loire), died with Paris.

Appreciated preacher (1605), the Coton father was ridiculed in 1605 when one learned that it had, during a Exorcisme, requested of the assistance from Satan to convert with the Catholicisme the king of England or the ministers Protesting S Ferrier and Daniel Chamier.

He was called at the court of Henri IV by the marshal of Lesdiguières, of which he had converted the girl (Madam de Créqui); the king took it in 1604 for Confesseur. The Father Knitting machine gained his confidence and obtained from him the recall of the Jésuite S. Coton would have made replace with the king his favorite swearword, jarnidieu (I disavow God) by Jarnicoton (I disavow Coton). He tried, but in vain, to support an agreement between the France and the Spain.

After the assassination of the king, it published the declaratory Lettre of the doctrines of the Fathers Jesuits , to clear the Society of Jesus (1610) who had been seriously blamed. A famous lampoon, anti-Cotton , answered him the same year. The Coton father was then the confessor of Louis XIII, until the murder of Concini which brought its disgrace (1617). He then went to preach in the South of France. Like the playwright and historiographer Pierre Matthieu, Pierre Cotton was accused of plagiarism by Agrippa of Aubigné.

He was the large uncle of François of Aix of the Chair (the Father the Chair), a time confessor of Louis XIV.

Lexicographical anecdote

When he was confessor of the king Henri IV, Pierre Cotton suggested with the king of more blasphémer by employing the name of God in his swearwords. The worst being, in his opinion, Jarnidieu (which means “I disavow God”), it proposed to him to replace the name of God by his proper name, from where the swearword weakened Jarnicoton (“I disavow Cotton”), who knew a certain vogue, 17th century until the round of the swearwords of Georges Brassens.

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