Chambrene, Jacques de

Jacques de Chambrene (October 21, 1635, Orange - 1689, London ) - French religious leader, Protestant pastor.

He came from the noble family of Pineton de Chambrene, the son of the founder of the clan Pastor Jacques de Chambrene Sr. From 1658 to 1685 ^{[1] he} was pastor and teacher of Calvinistic theology in Orange, gained fame for his forced renunciation of Calvinism due to religious persecution by the authorities and then returning to this faith. The Principality of Orange , during his lifetime, became a refuge for many French Protestants who had fled from the oppression of Catholics after the abolition of the Edict of Nantes. King Louis XIV , despite the Treaty of Nimes, decided to take advantage of the situation to arrest Chambrain, who was a prominent Protestant theologian and in his sermons condemned the actions of the royal forces. Chambrene was bedridden at the time because of a hip fracture, but he was still captured in his house by royal dragoons and subjected to various humiliations. In the end, he was forced to promise to renounce Calvinism and come to the king when he was recovered, and was sent to Valencia , then he ended up in Romey ^[2] . At the first opportunity he fled to Geneva , where, having recovered, he again became a Calvinist priest. Then, being in the Netherlands , he went to England together with the Prince of Orange, where he was a canon at Windsor and died in 1689. He described the history of his life in a book titled “Les Larmes de Jacques Pineton de Chambrun” (Gaye, 1688; reprint — Paris , 1854).