DUPERRON, JACQUES DAVY French cardinal, was born at St. Lei, in Normandy, on Nov. 15, 1556, the son of a Protestant minister, who settled at Berne, Switzerland, where Jacques Davy received his education. Returning to Nor mandy he abjured Protestantism and took orders. On the death of Henry III., after having supported for some time the car dinal de Bourbon, the head of the league against the king, Duperron became a faithful servant of Henry IV., and in 1591 was created by him bishop of Evreux. He instructed Henry in the Catholic religion; and in 1594 was sent to Rome, where with Cardinal d'Ossat (1536-1604) he obtained Henry's absolution. At the conference at Fontainebleau in 1600 he argued with much eloquence and ingenuity against Du Plessis Mornay In 1604 he was sent to Rome as chargé d'a ff wires. While still at Rome he was made a cardinal, and in 1606 became archbishop of Sens. In the states-general of 1614 he vigorously upheld the ultramontane doctrines against the Third Estate. He died in Paris on Sept. 6, 1618.