See also: Duchâtel

Pierre Duchâtel , Castellanus , French prelate, born with Arc-in-Barrois towards 1480, died in 1552.

He studied with Dijon, and was, as of the 16 years age, in a position to teach Latin and the Greek. With the recommendation of Érasme, it was employed during some time with Basle as corrector of printing works; then it started to travel, visited the Italy, the Egypt, the Palestine, the Syria, the Greece.

With its return, it was presented by the cardinal Jean of Bellay to François Ier which, tasting its spirit, named it its ordinary reader, then raised it with the seats of Tulle, of Mâcon, Orleans (1551), and made of it finally its large chaplain. He enjoys a great credit and made use of it to support the letters.

It was very tolerant: it defended courageously the rights of the Église gallicane and protected as much as it could it Robert Estienne and Etienne Dolet.

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