• The Academy of Saumur (French: Académie de Saumur) was a Huguenot university at Saumur in western France. It existed from 1593, when it was founded by...
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    theology at the Academy of Sedan and the Academy of Saumur, and Arabic at the University of Oxford, where he spent two years. At the age of twenty-eight...
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    determining a course. He did so, and decided on theology. He moved to the Academy of Saumur and studied under John Cameron, who ultimately regarded him as his...
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    Francis Turretin (category Academic staff of the University of Geneva)
    opponent of the moderate Calvinist theology of the Academy of Saumur (embodied by Moise Amyraut and called Amyraldianism). He was an earnest defender of the...
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    Philippe de Mornay (category Participants in the Synod of Dort)
    the Academy of Saumur, which had a distinguished history until its suppression by Louis XIV in 1683. His last years were saddened by the loss of his only...
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    Black Cadre) is a corps of écuyers, or instructors, at the French military riding academy École Nationale d'Équitation at Saumur in western France, founded...
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    Andrew Marvell (category Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge)
    was Lord Protector of England at that point. In 1656 Marvell and Dutton travelled to France, to visit the Protestant Academy of Saumur. In 1657, Marvell...
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    where his father was a Protestant pastor. He studied at the Academy of Saumur and the Academy of Sedan under his grandfather, Pierre Du Moulin, and under...
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    Franciscus Gomarus (category Academic staff of the University of Groningen)
    called in 1614 to a chair of theology at the Academy of Saumur, where he remained four years, and then accepted a call as professor of theology and Hebrew at...
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    Abraham de Moivre (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
    suppressed, and de Moivre enrolled to study logic at Saumur for two years. Although mathematics was not part of his course work, de Moivre read several works...
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