He was born on 16 March 1523 at
Montchamps, near
Vire in
Normandy. He studied Hebrew under
Francis Vatablus at Paris, and became a Protestant. He came to England in
Edward VI's reign, about 1548; and was entertained first by
Paul Fagius and
Martin Bucer and afterwards by Archbishop
Thomas Cranmer, with whom he stayed for more than a year. Subsequently he settled at
Cambridge, where he gave free lectures in Hebrew, and lodged with
Emanuel Tremellius, the Hebrew professor. He was pensioned by Cranmer and
Thomas Goodrich,
bishop of Ely, and married Elizabeth de Grimecieux, Tremellius's stepdaughter, on 1 December 1550. His eldest child, Emanuel, was born at Cambridge on 8 September 1551. Cranmer recommended Chevallier to the king's notice, and he was granted letters of
denization and the reversion to the next vacant
prebend at Canterbury. He was the "Mr. Anthony" who taught the Princess Elizabeth French. On Edward VI's death in 1553 Chevallier left for
Strasbourg, where he was appointed Hebrew professor in 1559, but moved in the same year to
Geneva and confirmed his intimacy with
John Calvin, whose acquaintance he had made before 1554 Ultimately he settled at
Caen, and in 1568 revisited England to solicit Queen Elizabeth's aid for the French
Huguenots. He was in no hurry to return to Normandy, agreed to become Hebrew lecturer at
St Paul's Cathedral, and in May 1569 received, at the suggestion of
Matthew Parker and
Edmund Grindal, the appointment of
Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge. He matriculated on 3 August 1569, and on 5 September complained to Parker that his stipend as professor had been reduced.
John Drusius and
Hugh Broughton were his pupils. Chevallier became a prebendary of Canterbury in 1570, and on 24 March 1572 received leave of absence from Canterbury for two years without prejudice to his emoluments. At the time of the
St. Bartholomew's massacre in Paris he escaped to
Guernsey, intending to return to England, but died there in October of the same year. ==Works==