Pierre
.A conspirator in Otway’s Venice Preserved. He is described as a patriot of the bluntest manners, and a stoical heart.
Uglier than Pierre du Coignet (French). Coignères was an advocate-general in the reign of Philippe de Valois, who stoutly opposed the encroachments of the Church. The monks, in revenge, called, by way of pun, those grotesque monkey-like figures carved in stone, used in church architecture, pierres du Coignet or pierres du Coignères. At Notre Dame de Paris they used to extinguish their torches in the mouths and nostrils of these figures, which thus acquired a superadded ugliness. (See Recherches de Pasquier, iii. chap. xxvii.)
