Chassagnion (Chassaignon, Chassanion, Chassinon, Or Lachasse), Jean De
a French savant of the 16th century, was a native of Monistrol (Velay), and one of the main propagators of the Reformation in France. He organized in 1556 a Church at Meaux, but was compelled to leave it, and continued his work at Montpellier; afterwards he took refuge in Geneva and at Metz in 1576. He is the author of Histoire oabe inoab des Grands et A Merveilleux Jugements et Punitions de Dieu (Geneva, 1595):-Histoire des Albigeois, etc. (ibid. eod.). See Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religieuses, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. fit. i, 733; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B. P.)