JEANNIN, PIERRE 2 ) , French statesman, was born at Autun. A pupil of the great jurist Jacques Cujas at Bour ges, he was an advocate at Dijon in 1569 and became councillor and then president of the parlement of Burgundy. He opposed in vain the massacre of St. Bartholomew in his province. As coun cillor to the duke of Mayenne he sought to reconcile him with Henry IV. After the victory of Fontaine-Francaise (1595), Henry took Jeannin into his council and in 1602 named him intendant of finances. He took part in the principal events of the
reign, negotiated the treaty of Lyons with the duke of Savoy (see HENRY IV.), and the defensive alliance between France and the United Netherlands in 1608.
See Berger de Xivrey, Lettres missives de Henry IV. (in the Collec tion inedite pour l'histoire de France), t. v. (185o) ; P(ierre) S(aumaise), Eloge sur la vie de Pierre Janin (Dijon, 1623) ; Sainte Beuve, Causeries du lundi, t. x. (May 1854).