Chanut, Pierre Marshal

Chanut, Pierre Marshal a French theologian and translator, was abbé of Issoire, chancellor of queen Anne of Austria, and visitor-general of the Carmelites. He died Nov. 13, 1695, leaving Seconde Apologie de Justins pour les Chrtiens (from the Greek, Paris, 1670, 12mo), under the assumed name of Pierre Tondet, and in 1686, under the true name of the author: — Catechisme du Concile de Trente (ibid. 1693, 12mo): —Vie et Aeuvres de Sainte Therese (written by herself, and translated from the Spanish, ibid. 1691, 8vo). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Générale, s.v.