, a brother of the preceding Francis and Adrian, followed his father’s
, a brother of the preceding
Francis and Adrian, followed his father’s profession, that
of medicine, and obtained a doctor’s degree in 1594. After
Henry IV. had reduced Paris to its loyalty and submission,
Amboise became rector of the university, which Crevier
says he found in great decay and disorder, and which he
left in a renovated and flourishing state: He began by
making the members of the university take an oath of allegiance to Henry IV. He afterwards supported the unfversity in the law-suit with the Jesuits, which was given
against the latter, and they were expelled; he even accused them of being enemies to the Salique law, and to
the royal family. He died of the plague in 1606. His
only works are, “Orationes duae,
” against the Jesuits,
Paris, Questiones Medicales,
” mentioned
in Carrere’s “Bibliotheque de la Medicine.
” Haller attributes other medical treatises to one of the same name,
but does not notice the “Questiones.
”