Nicolas Rolland du Plessis

Nicolas Rolland, sieur du Plessis was a French lawyer , politician and publicist .

Life

Rolland was a member of the Parliamentary Council and later of the Paris City Council (den seize) . He was on the side of the Holy League and proclaimed Charles I, duc d'Aumale, governor of Paris as part of the popular uprising of May 1588.

Fonts

Remonstrances tres-humbles au roy de France et de Pologne, Henry troisiesme de ce nom. S. l. 1588.
Censure d'un livret n'aguères imprimé à Paris, en forme de Dialogue, soubs les noms du Manant & du Maheutre entreparleurs. Paris 1594.
Dialogue d'entre le maheustre et le manant cont. les raisons de leurs debats & questions en ces présens troubles au Royaume de France. S. l. 1594.
Discours véritable de la mort, funérailles et enterrement de defunct messire André de Brancas , en son vivant chevalier seigneur de Villars, conseiller au conseil d'Etat et privé du Roy. R. L'Allemant, Rouen 1595.
Advertissement pour servir de response au discours naguères publié sur le faict des monnoyes. Nicolas Buon, Paris 1609.
Nouuel aduertissement pour seruir de response à l'Apologie derniere sur le faict des monnoyes. Nicolas Buon, Paris 1610.

Individual evidence

↑ De la docrine du tyrannicide. Paris 1828, p. 41.
↑ Lothar Schilling: The King's Ear. On the question of the accessibility of the monarch in France in the 16th and early 17th centuries. In: Silvia Serena Tschopp, Wolfgang EJ Weber (Ed.) Power and Communication. Augsburg studies on European cultural history. Akademie, Berlin 2012, pp. 81–116, here: p. 107, fn. 100.
↑ Ann W. Ramsey: Liturgy, Politics, and Salvation. The Catholic League in Paris and the Nature of Catholic Reform, 1540-1630. University of Rochester Press, Rochester 1999, p. 183.

personal data
SURNAME	Rolland du Plessis, Nicolas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Du Plessis, Nicolas Rolland sieur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French lawyer, politician and author
DATE OF BIRTH	16th Century
DATE OF DEATH	17th century

[1] De la docrine du tyrannicide. Paris 1828, p. 41.

[2] Lothar Schilling: The King's Ear. On the question of the accessibility of the monarch in France in the 16th and early 17th centuries. In: Silvia Serena Tschopp, Wolfgang EJ Weber (Ed.) Power and Communication. Augsburg studies on European cultural history. Akademie, Berlin 2012, pp. 81–116, here: p. 107, fn. 100.

[3] Ann W. Ramsey: Liturgy, Politics, and Salvation. The Catholic League in Paris and the Nature of Catholic Reform, 1540-1630. University of Rochester Press, Rochester 1999, p. 183.