Claude, Jean, a French Protestant controversial divine, a powerful antagonist of Bossuet and other Catholic writers, allowed only 24 hours to escape on the eve of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, though other Protestant ministers were allowed 15 days (1619‒1687).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Classics * Claude Lorraine