page_title: François Baudouin
hierarchical_section_title: François Baudouin
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Portrait de François Baudouin. Estampe du graveur Léonard Gaultier, dans Pourtraictz de plusieurs hommes illustres qui ont flory en France depuis l'an 1500 jusques à présent.
context_page_description: François Baudouin, also called Balduinus, was a French jurist, Christian controversialist and historian. Among the most colourful of the noted French humanists, he was respected by his contemporaries as a statesman and jurist, even as they frowned upon his perceived inconstancy in matters of faith: he was noted as a Calvinist who converted to Catholicism.
context_section_description: François Baudouin (1520 – 24 October 1573), also called Balduinus, was a French jurist, Christian controversialist and historian. Among the most colourful of the noted French humanists, he was respected by his contemporaries as a statesman and jurist, even as they frowned upon his perceived inconstancy in matters of faith: he was noted as a Calvinist who converted to Catholicism.
caption: Portrait of François Baudouin, engraving by Léonard Gaultier
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