Pierre Allix

 ALLIX, PIERRE (1641-1717), French Protestant divine, was born at Alencon.  He was pastor first at St Agobile in Champagne, and then at Charenton, near Paris.  The revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685 compelled him to take refuge in London, where, under the sanction of James II., he opened a church for the French exiles.  His reputation for learning was such as to obtain for him, soon after his arrival, the degree of doctor of divinity from both universities, and in 1690 he received from Bishop Burnet the more substantial honour of the treasurership and a canonry in Salisbury Cathedral.  He died at London in March 1717.  The works of Allix, which are numerous, are chiefly of a controversial and apologetic character, and must be used with caution.  In opposition to Bossuet he published Some Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of Piedmont (1690), and Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of the Albigenses (1692), with the idea of showing that the Albigenses were not Manichaeans, but historically identical with the Waldenses.