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Innocent Gentillet , born in 1535 and dead the June 23rd 1588, is a French lawyer and theologist.

Huguenot moderated, Parliamentary lawyer then , it is exiled with Geneva after the Massacre of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, then returns to France after the edict of Beaulieu of 1576. Its Protestant opinions again make it exile in Geneva in 1585.

He writes in 1571 Discours on the means of controlling well (Anti-Machiavel), in which he condemns the ideas of Nicolas Machiavel, suspected of wanting to introduce impiété and immorality into the government. It shows the Italian there entourage of Catherine de Médicis to be made the propagators of them. The work, which appears initially in Latin, then in French and English, knows a considerable diffusion through all Europe until the middle of the 17th century. Gentillet affirms that the source of the richness of a State comes from its strong population. It estimates that the internal conflicts and the bad laws are contrary with the development of the population and condemns the luxury like vermin to the public welfare.

The Anti-Machiavel contributed to establish the durable misunderstandings on the work of Machiavel, of which it constitutes the first refutation. He announces also the Political science such as Jean Bodin defines it.

Publications

Remonstrance in Roy tres-chrestien Henry III. On the faict of both Edicts of its Maiesté give to Lyon, one of X. of September, and the other of the XIII. from Last October spent, year 1574 presents, concerning the need for peace, and means of making it (1574)
Discours on the means of controlling (Anti-Machiavel) well and of maintaining in good peace a kingdom or another principality, divided into three parts, has to know, of the Council, the Religion & the Police force which a Prince must hold. Against Nicolas Machiavel (1576)
the Republic of Swiss the comprinse in two books, containing the government of Switzerland since the jusques emperor Raoul de Habspourg with Charles Quint, Latin descrite by Josias Simler, and lately put as a François (1578)
Apology, or Defense for the chrestiens of France, which are evangelic Religion or reformee, satisfying those which do not want to live in peace & harmony with them. By which the purity of icelle religion, are principal poincts which is into different, is clearly monstrée, not only by Saincte Escriture, & the reason, but also by the proper guns of the Pope. In Roy de Navarre (1584)
the Office of the Concile of Thirty, to which is monster that in several poincts iceluy council is contrary with the old councils and guns and the authority of Roy (1586)

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