Champeil, Pierre (or Lonard)

Champeil, Pierre (or Lonard)

a French theologian, was born at Treignac in 1590. He entered the Jesuit order at the age of nineteen, and taught theology and moral philosophy at Bordeaux, as a zealous sectary of Occam and the Nominalists. He died April 12,1669, leaving Les Vesrites Catholiques (Paris, 1664). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Générale, s.v.