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The son of an advocate to the parlement de Paris, Jean was originally intended for a legal career himself, but in the course of a trip to Italy with Pomponne de Bellièvre (a nephew of pope Urban VIII) he was made a canon of Toul.
He was son of Augustin de Thou (d. 1544), also Président of the Parlement de Paris, and brother to Nicolas de Thou, the Bishop of Chartres.