GEN 
In 1697 he publifhed ‘* Effays on the Reign of Louis le 
Grand,’’ which he prefented, in perfon, to the monarch, 
and which were fo well received by the public as to pafs 
through four editions in eighteen months. After this, he 
gave the world his “* Hiftory of France to the Death of 
Lous XIII.,”’ in three vols. folio, ‘This is efteemed one of 
ents of French 
the aie at different Periods of their Monarchy :’? and 
of ae Ss Amboife, with a Parallel of the 
At a 
e aie 
equeits for var las founda- 
which, after exciting ae relative to their 
fulfilment, were secs lied by authority to the inflitution of 
izes in Sa iverfity of Paris. Mor reri. 
be apes AF the Jura, and chief place of a canton in ee 
of Déle; 10 miles E. of Auxonne. The 
conga 652, and the canton 4399 inhabitants, on a ne 
ry of 94 kiliometres, in 95 communes. 
GENDRON, Kobe Diana Ss, in Biography, do&or 
of the faculty of Montpellier, phyficin in ordinary to Mon- 
fieur, the brother of Louis X fterwanis to the 
duke of Odeats when ante nt, was a native of Beauce 
and medicin 
ociety 0 me ve fei ence and 
to fit at “ ee = coh - pete all flattery and 
ifguil = e he ee = — an 
r Pa 
to Auteu ris, where 
ifters 
the age 
#© Recherc 
- De veloppement, = la Reproduction des étres 
A ne he of the preceding, Louis Florent Defhais-Gen- 
dron, alfoa BD iene was the author of two treatifes on 
the difeate s of thé eyes, i 
GEN: a town of. Hindooftan, in 
Dowlatabad ; 24 mi Naldowrouk. 
G NEALOGICA Nason. See ARBO 
‘GENEALOGY, a = or fucceffion of anceltor r8, Or 
pr ogenitors 5 ‘or, a, fum at account of the relations and 
kindred of pn ‘Gr: fam) yo both in the dire& and colla- 
terallines, = EH 
The word reek, sere, which i is formed of 
YO, genus, pr ae race, and ac age j ye ‘ands -“ cme di of 
course. 
In diverg chapters, and military orders, it Is requited, 
they are noble by fo many defcents. 
i = Saige ie one are ufually reprefented i in circles, 
of each other e ancients 
bade a Tike, whieh ey called | femmata, from a Greek w ord, 
Y, in Geogra ft yyy a town ef France, in the 
ich endear a man _ 
this or caufed the di 
_ he was as properly the degal On 
that the candidates produce their genealogys, to thew that” 1 
GEN 
fignifying = ee or the like. See Consanevinte 
TY - DEscE 
he cs were very anxious = preferving aap age 
gies entire e and ener ed care on their 
CC 
we find genealogies carried on ¢ @ 3500 
' obferved (Ezra, ii. 62.) that fuch prietls as could not pro- 
duce an exaét ealogy of their families were not per- 
mitted to exercife ies functions. Jofephus fays that they 
had, in his nation, an er ioc fucceffion of priefts for 
2000 years etal 
ferve their genealogies, not 0 
i that, wherever “they we 
married below themfelves, and genealogical tables: 
prepared from thofe aut thentic pecan ts which we 
at Jerufalem, and to which they had — and het, in: 
all their war Sy perfecutions, and cal amities, they utd 
hea a in meena thofe sey ad and in wing 
ime. Jerome fays (ad Tit. iti. ) that the 
thelr own. ee Neverthelefs, fince the war of the Romans 
againft the Jews, about 30 years sag the death of res = 
viour, and fince their entire difperfion inthe reign 
the Jews — loft their ancient pened ogies ; a arias 
there is not even one of the facerdotal race who can pros 
duce fo tic proofs of his genealogy. circumitance 
has teal alleged by C 
hriftian sl ar as a prefumptive proof, 
Me ; 
of ed actual advent of the 
4 ahem a - pasting of thele who came up at et 
from Babylon, with Zerubbabel and Jofhua, he fettled this 
matter according to it, adding fuch as gir varie © came up, 
and expunging others whofe Esmilies were extinguifhed ; and. 
ffe erence between the accounts which we 
have of thefe genealogies in Ezra and Nehemiah. For ir 
the fecond chapter of Ezra we have the old regifter, made by 
Zerubbabel ; and in the feventh cf Nehemiah, from the, 
ee verfe to theend of the chapter, a copy of it, as fet. 
tle é y ehemiah, with the alterations I have men- 
tioned,” 
te the difagreement be~ 
tween them, it was a tradition in the sey of Jofeph, that 
of Heli, and that, as he died 
ao his brother Jacob married his wife, and 
” ul her, it was transferred to Heli, 
ogy of Matthew becom p 
genealogies in the Hd 
from . pe em ia fever} ah relpeds; but it war = eae a 
logy 
te aul 
