JACQUES See also:

• JACQUES BASNAGE (1653-1723)

BASNAGE (1653-1723)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant divine, was the eldest son of the eminent lawyer See also:

• HENRI

Henri See also:

• BASNAGE, JACQUES (1653-1723)

Basnage, sieur de Franquenay (1615–1695), and was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• ROUEN

Rouen in See also:

• NORMANDY

Normandy in 1653 . He studied classical See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages at See also:

• SAUMUR

Saumur and afterwards See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology at See also:

• GENEVA
• GENEVA (Fr. Geneve, Ger. Genf, Ital. Ginevra, Late Lat. Gebenna, though Genava in good Latin)
• GENEVA, LAKE OF

Geneva . He was pastor at Rouen (his native See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place) from 1676 till 1685, when, on the revocation of the See also:

• EDICT (Lat. edictum, from e, out, and dicere, to say, speak)

edict of See also:

• NANTES
• NANTES, EDICT OF

Nantes, he obtained leave of the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king to retire to See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland . He settled at See also:

• ROTTERDAM

Rotterdam as a See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister See also:

• PENSIONARY

pensionary till 1691, when he was chosen pastor of the Walloon See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church . In 1709 the See also:

• GRAND

grand pensionary A . See also:

• HEINSIUS (or HEINS) DANIEL (1580-1655)
• HEINSIUS, NIKOLAES (1620-1681)

Heinsius (1641–1720) secured his See also:

• ELECTION
• ELECTION (from Lat. eligere, to pick out)

election as one of the pastors of the Walloon church at the See also:

• HAGUE, THE (in Dutch, 's Gravenhage, or, abbreviated, den Haag; in Fr. La Haye; and in Late Lat. Haga Comitis)

Hague, intending to employ him mainly in See also:

• CIVIL

civil affairs . Accordingly he was engaged in a See also:

• SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

secret negotiation with See also:

• MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

Marshal d'Uxelles, plenipotentiary of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France at the See also:

• CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

congress of See also:

• UTRECHT
• UTRECHT, TREATY OF

Utrecht—a service which he executed with so much success that he was entrusted with several important commissions, all of which he discharged with See also:

• GREAT

great ability . In 1716 See also:

• DUBOIS
• DUBOIS, FRANCOIS CLEMENT THEODORE (1837– )
• DUBOIS, GUILLAUME (1656–1723)
• DUBOIS, JEAN ANTOINE (1765-1848)
• DUBOIS, PAUL (1829-1905)
• DUBOIS, PIERRE (c. 1250-c. 1312)

Dubois, who was at the Hague at the instance of the See also:

• REGENT (from Lat. regere, to rule)

regent See also:

• ORLEANS
• ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
• ORLEANS, DUKES OF
• ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
• ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
• ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
• ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
• ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
• ORLEANS, PHILIP I
• ORLEANS, PHILIP II

Orleans, for the purpose of negotiating the Triple See also:

• ALLIANCE

Alliance between France, Great See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain and Holland, sought the See also:

• ADVICE (Fr. avis, from Lat. ad, to, and visum, viewed)

advice of Basnage, who, in spite of the fact that he had failed to receive permission to return to France on a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short visit the See also:

• YEAR

year before, did his best to further the negotiations . The French See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government also turned to him for help in view of the threatened rising in the See also:

• CEVENNES (Lat. Cebenna or Gebenna)

Cevennes . Basnage had welcomed the revival of the Protestant church due to the zeal of See also:

• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

Antoine See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court; but he assured the regent that no danger of active resistance was to be feared from it, and, true to the principles of See also:

• CALVIN, JOHN (1509-1564)

Calvin, he denounced the See also:

• REBELLION

rebellion of the See also:

• CAMISARDS (from camisade, obsolete Fr. for " a night attack," from the Ital. camiciata, formed from camicia—Fr. chemise—a shirt, from the fact of a shirt being worn over the armour in order to distinguish friends from foes)

Camisards (q.v.) in his Instructions pastorales aux Reformer de France sur l'obeissance due aux souverains (See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 1720), which was printed by See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order of the court and scattered broadcast in the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south of France . Basnage died on the 22nd of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1723 . Basnage was a See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good preacher and a prolific writer .

His See also:

• WORKS

works include several dogmatic and polemical See also:

• TREATISES

treatises, but the most important are the See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical . Of these may be mentioned Histoire de la See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion See also:

• DES

des eglises reformees (Rotterdam, 1690), the Histoire de l'eglise depuis Jesus-See also:

• CHRIST (Gr. X pLQTOS, Anointed)
• CHRIST, WILHELM VON (1831-1906)

Christ jusqu'd See also:

• PRESENT

present (ib . 1699)—both of them written from the point of view of Protestant polemics—and, of greater scientific value, the Histoire des Juifs (Rotterdam, 1706, Eng. trans . 1708) and the Antiquites judaiques ou remarques critiques sur la republique des Hebreux (1713) . He. also wrote short explanatory introductions and notes to a collection of See also:

• COPPER (symbol Cu, atomic weight 63.1, H=1, or 63.6, O = 16)

copper-See also:

• PLATE

plate engravings, much valued by connoisseurs, called Histoires du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament, representees See also:

• PAR (Lat. par, equal)

par des figures gravees en faille-See also:

• DOUCE, FRANCIS (1757-1834)

douce par" R. de Hooge (See also:

• AMSTERDAM
• AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

Amsterdam, 1704) .