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âEtienne Pasquier (1529-1615) was a lawyer, royal official, man of letters, and historian. He represented the University of Paris in its 1565 suit to dislodge a Jesuit school from Paris. Despite royal support, the Jesuits remained in conflict with many institutions, which in 1595 expelled them from much of the realm. With ever-increasing polemics, Pasquier continued to oppose the Jesuits. To further his aims, he published a dialog between a Jesuit (almost certainly Louis Richeome) and a lawyer (Pasquierhimself). He called it the Jesuits Catechism (1602). Pasquier s work did not stop the French king from welcoming the Jesuits back. But Pasquier s Catechism remained central to Jansenist and other anti-Jesuit agitation up to the Society s 1773 suppression and beyond–