DUBOIS, PIERRE (c. 1250-c. 1312), French publicist in the reign of Philip the Fair, was educated at the university of Paris. In 1300, he wrote his anonymous Summaria, brevis et compen diosa doctrina felicis expedicionis et abbreviationis guerrarum et litium regni Francorum, which is extant in a unique ms., but is analysed by N. de Wailly in the Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes (2nd series, vol. iii.) . In the contest between Philip the Fair and Boniface VIII. Dubois identified himself with the sec ularizing policy of Philip. His Supplication du pueble de France au roy contre le pape Boniface le Ville, printed in 1614 in Acta inter Boni f acium VIII. et Phili ppunt Pulchrum, dates from 1304, and is a heated indictment of the temporal power. He represented Coutances in the states-general of 1302, but in 1306 he was serv ing Edward I. as an advocate in Guienne, without apparently abandoning his Norman practice by which he had become a rich man. His treatise De recuperatione terrae sanctae, outlining the conditions for a successful crusade, was written in 1306, and dedi cated in its extant form to Edward I., though it is certainly ad dressed to Philip. Dubois's ideas on education, on the celibacy of the clergy, and his schemes for the codification of French law, were far in advance of his time. He was an early and violent "Gal lican," and the first of the great French lawyers who occupied themselves with high politics. In 1308 he attended the states general at Tours. He is generally credited with Quaedam pro posita papae a rege super facto Templariorum, a draft epistle sup posed to be addressed to Clement by Philip.
See an article by E. Renan in Hist. litt. de la France, vol. xxvi. PP. ; P. Dupuy, Hist. de la condemnation . . . des Templiers (Brussels, 1713), and Hist. du di,Jerend entre le pape Boniface VIII. et Philippe le Bel (Paris, 1655) ; and Notices et extraits de manuscrits, vol. xx. E. Zeck, Pierre Dubois, etc. (191I).