sentences:  Mary commended him to the French king, and he enjoyed the post of gentleman ordinary of the privy chamber to Charles IX, Henry III, and Henry IV, with a yearly pension of four hundred crowns.He saved the lives of several countrymen at the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, but never renounced Protestantism.In 1574 he exhibited his Hebrew learning in a public disputation at Avignon with the chief rabbi Benetrius.