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Voik lie difciiTres the fiibjea of tlie ancient cliurch, on 

 tlie grounds of reafoii ami fcripture, and examines the faith 

 of the church for the fix firil centuries, in order to fliew, 

 tliat, throu;rh tlie whole of tl.is period, the doarines of 

 tranfubftantiation and of the real pcifon were unknown. 

 The hiftorical part of this performance was anfwcred hy 

 Arnaud, and other Port Royal divines, in a work intitlcd 

 " I,a Perpctuite de la Foi." Aubertin became the object 

 of clerical odium; a piocefs was inftitnted againll liim for 

 llyling hinifelf paftor of the reformed church of Paris, 

 and he was fufpended two or three )-ears for fomc cxnrtf- 

 fions which he ufcd in the pulpit. Intolerant bigotry pur- 

 fued him to his laft moments. On his death-bed, and when 

 be was jull expiring, Ollerius, the curate of St. Sulpice, 

 ^vith a bailiff av.d an armed mob, confilling of forty perfons, 

 intruded. on his retirement ; under a pretence, that he wilhed 

 to make an abjurati.ni before a priell, which he was pre- 

 vented from doing, and that they would give him an op- 

 portunity of difourdening his confcience. The leader of 

 this gang obtained admittance by feigning himfclf to be 

 aphyfician. "i'he honell Aubertin, rouzed by this intrnfion 

 and affault, dillinclly declared his perfeverance in the faith 

 of the reformed church. Vv'hen the curate and bailiff witli- 

 drew, the n;ob were with difiicnlty perfiiadcd to depart 

 without plundering the houfe. In tliefc liappicr days this 

 extreme of bigotiTj which would not aUow a man of dif- 

 tinguillied probity and worth to die in peace, and which at 

 a feafon, when 



" Claudicat ingenium, delirat linguaque menfque," 



l.ucret. 1. iii. v. 454. 



" When reafon halts, and thought and fpcecli are wild," 

 endeavoured to extort from him a declaration, wiiicli his 

 found reafonhad difclaimed, will be univerfaUy reprobated and 

 condemned. This good man died at Paris in the year i6j2, 

 at the age of 57 years. A Latin trar.flation of his work by 

 liimfelf, was publilhed at Devcnter in 1654, folio. Gen. 



i;ict. 



AUBERY, or Aubry, John, was phyflcian to the 

 Due de Monlpenfier. He was educated under the famous 

 l)u Laurens ; publiffied in 1604, " Les Bains de Dourbon- 

 Lancv ;" and in 1608, " De leftituenda ct vindicanda Me- 

 dicinx Dignitatc;" both at Paris: but the work which gained 

 him moft reputation, and which is ftill in requell, is his 

 "Antidote de PAniour," i2mo., firft printed in 1599, 

 and fince at Delft, 1663. 



AuBERY, Anthony, a French hiftorian, was born in 

 1617, and after having been educated at Paris for the law, 

 retired into the tranquillity of private hfe, and devoted hiin- 

 felf to lullorical refearch'es. In 1642, his " General Hif- 

 tory of the Cardinals" was publiflied in 5 vols. 4to. ; in 

 1649, appeared his liiftorical treatife " On the J're-cmin- 

 cnce of the Kings of France above tlie Kings ot Spain and 

 the Emperors;" in 1654, the " Hiftory of the Cardinal 

 de Joyeufc, and CollcAion of Letters written by that Car- 

 dinal to Henry III. ;" and in 1660, his " Hilloiy of Car- 

 dinal Richelieu, containing the principal t vents in the reign 

 of Louis XIII." in folio, which was accompanitd by two 

 other w.lumes of titles, letters, difpatehcs, iullruc'tions, 

 and memoirs, ferving as documents and vouchers to the 

 general hillory. When Bertier the printer waited upon 

 the queen regent, requefting her authority for the publica- 

 tion of the work, which contained fevere ibiaurcs ou many 

 perfons in high life, it is faid that tlic queen rcp'ied, 

 " Finifli your work without fear; and put vice to the biufli, 

 that virtue alone may dare to (hew her face in trance." 

 Aubery, notwithllanding the freedom «itli uhieh he wrote, 

 has been charged with drawing, in tiii.s work, too flattering 

 a piaure of Cardinal Richelieu, and it lius been faiJ that 



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thii was done, from lucrative motives, for gratifyingf the 

 vanity of the duchefs d'Arguiilon, the cardiuHl's niece. 

 A book, written by Aubery in lC6-i, on the jull prctcn- 

 hoiis of the king of France to the empire, ar.d dedicated in 

 Louis XLV. alarmed the princes of the empire, and excited 

 complaints againll the autlior, who was committed to the 

 Baftile, in order to filence and conciliate them, but he wa* 

 foon rcleafed. This work was followed by a treatife " 0:« 

 the dignity of Cardinal," and another of little value, <• On 

 the Regale, or the right of enjoying the Revenues of vacant 

 Biflioprics." Hii Idft work, publi(hed in 4 vols. izmo. ia 

 1751, was " The Hiftory of Cardinal Mazari^i." The 

 faas coUefled in this publication from the rcgilUri of par- 

 liament, now no longer to be found, conftitut; its chief 

 excellence; for neitlier tlie Ajie nor method of it have 

 much to recommend them, and the author had not fuf- 

 ficient independence of mind or fitiiation to write witli 

 impartiality. While he was preparing for tlic prcf* oilier 

 hiftorical C'llkaions, his life, which had been fpent in a 

 courfe of literary labour and induftr)-, was terminated by 

 an accident in 1^195, at the age of 7R. Journal des Sea- 

 vans, t. xxiii. p. 185. Nouv. l3ia. Hill. 



AvBERY, Lovis DL Mairii R, a French hift.orian of the 

 17th century, accompanied his father, who went, whilft he 

 was young, as ambaffador to Holland, and vifitcd Ger- 

 many, Poland, and Italy. On hij rctuni to Pa-is, he ob- 

 tained the favour of the queen regent ; but having r,o 

 public employment, he retired, after the death of Richelieu, 

 to his family manfion, and fpcnt his time in literary avoca- 

 tions. He died in 16S7, and his works were " Memoirs for 

 the hiftory of Hollandj" publifhed in two vols. 1 2mo. in 

 1682 ; and " Memoirs of Hamburg, Lubcck, Holllcin, 

 Denmark, Sweden, and Poland," pubhlhcd after his death, 

 and both printed together at AmlUrdam in 1736. The 

 former work contains intercfting facis, though it gave 

 offence to the Dutch. Nouv. Dicl. Hift. 



AUBETERRE, in Geography, a town of France, in 

 the department of the Charcnte, and chief place of a canton 

 in the dillria of Barbcficus:, fix leagues fouth-caft of Barbc- 

 fieux, and 75 fouth of Angoulefme. N. lat. 45' 15'. E. long. 

 0° 10'. 



AUBETTE, a river of France, which runs into the 

 Seine, near Rouen. 



AUBEVILLIERS, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Somme, and chief place of a canton in the 

 diftria of Montdidier, thirteen miles S. S.E. of Araiens. 



AvEEviLLiERS {La), 3. town of France, one league 

 N.N.E. of Paris. 



AITBIERES, a town of France, in the department of 

 Puy de Dome, and chief place of a canton in the diftrid of 

 Clermont-Scrand, one league fouth-eaft of Clermont. 



AuBiERts tZ-cj), a town of France, in the department 

 of the Two Sevrts, and chief place of a canton in the 

 diftria of Chalillon fur Sevre, 2i leagues E.N. E. of Cha- 

 tillun. 



AUBIGNE', Theodore-Aoripta D', in Biography, 

 was born at St. Maury, near Pons, in Saintonge, in 1550; 

 but, although he was belimcs a pnificient in literature, the 

 circumrtanccs of his family, on the death of his father, 

 obliged him to recur to the pioleffion of aims. In the fer- 

 vice of Henry IV. of France, then king of Navarre, he fo 

 far recommended himfell to the royal favour, as to obtais 

 feviral confuUrabL pofts, both of honour and profit. Such 

 was his known and approved fidelity, that his royal maftcr 

 received his remonftranecs on fuch parts of his private and 

 public cundua as defeived animadverfion, without offence. 

 " The word of D'Aubigne difconterted (faid Henry on one 

 oceallon it uorth a? much as thegrilitude of anoiLci man:" 

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