Pinault, Pierre Oliver

Pinault, Pierre Oliver a French writer who flourished in the second half of last century, was a member of the Parliament of Paris, and is the author of, Jugement par-te sun les Jesuites par les grands hommes de l'Eglise et de l'Etat (1761, 12mo): — La nouvelle philosophie devoilee (1770, 12mo): — and Origine des maux de l'Eglise (1787, 12mo). He published a new edition of Hericourt's Lois ecclesiasfiques de France (1771, fol.), and some translations of Portuguese and Italian works. -Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Géneralé, 40, 248.