Pierre Allix (1641 – 3 March 1717) was a French Protestant pastor and author. In 1690 Allix was created Doctor of Divinity by Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and was given the treasurership and a canonry in Salisbury Cathedral by Bishop Gilbert Burnet. He discovered that Codex Ephraemi is a palimpsest. Life Born in 1641 in Alençon, France, he became a pastor first at Saint-Agobile Champagne, and then at Charenton, near Paris. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 compelled him to take refuge in London. There he set up a church in Jewin Street, Aldersgate. He was the most celebrated Huguenot preacher of the 1680s in England, closely associated with Charles Le Cène, and known to advocate religious toleration. In 1690 Allix was created Doctor of Divinity by Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and was given the treasurership and a canonry in Salisbury Cathedral by Bishop Gilbert Burnet. Allix discovered that Codex Ephraemi is a palimpsest. He died in London. He had a large personal library which was sold by retail sale upon his death. Works The numerous works of Allix were in French, Latin, and English. They are chiefly of apologetic character. Against Jacques-Benigne Bossuet he published Some Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of Piedmont (1690), and Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of the Albigenses (1692), with the idea of showing that the Albigensians were not Manichaeans, but historically identical with the Waldenses. They were as follows: Reponse à la Dissertation par Bertram, et Jean Scott, ou Erigene, 1670. Ratramme, ou Bertram Prêtre; du corps et du sang du Seigneur, 1672. Dissertatio de Trisagii origine, 1674. Dissertatio de Sanguine Domini Nostri Jesu Christi. Dissertatio de Tertulliani vita et scriptis. Les Malheurs de l'impenitence, sermon de jeune, sur Proverbes i. 24–28, prononcé à Charenton en 1675. Les devoirs du Saint Ministère, sermon de consecration, sur Tit. ii. 7, 8, prononcé à Charenton en 1676. Dissertatio de Conciliorum quorumvis definitionibus ad examen revocandis, 1680. Anastasii Sinaiticæ anagogicarum contemplationum in Hexahemeron lib. xii. 1682. Défense de la Réformation, sermon sur Jeremie v. 16, prononcé à Charenton en 1682. Douze Sermons de P. A. sur divers textes, 1685. Determinatio F. Joannis Parisiensis de modo existendi corporis Christi in sacramento altaris, 1686 (arguing that the Church of Rome did not hold transubstantiation before the Council of Trent). Les maximes du vrai Chrétien, 1687. L'Adieu de St. Paul