id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5088 François Hotman - Wikipedia .html text/html 2099 362 68 François Hotman (23 August 1524 – 12 February 1590) was a French Protestant lawyer and writer, associated with the legal humanists and with the monarchomaques, who struggled against absolute monarchy. Pierre, a zealous Catholic and a counsellor of the parlement of Paris, intended his son for the law, and sent him at the age of fifteen to the University of Orléans. The work of a practising lawyer was not to his taste; he turned to jurisprudence and literature, and in 1546 was appointed lecturer in Roman Law at the University of Paris. His most important work, the Franco-Gallia (1573), found favour neither with Catholics nor with Huguenots in its day (except when it suited their purposes); yet its vogue has been compared to that obtained later by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Contrat Social. Franco-Gallia (Large Print Edition): Or An Account of the Ancient Free State of France. Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5088.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5088.txt