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tanks; and his lofs was muqh lamented by the poor, to 
whom he had been a kind and aCtive benefaftor. He re¬ 
turned the publication of the celebrated Lticon Confe¬ 
rences, which had been commenced by M. Louis, fub- 
dean of Lujon, but after the appearance of five volumes 
was fufpended for about ten years. M. Dubos added 
feventeen volumes to that collection, which were pub- 
lilhed in izmo, at different periods, and left materials in 
the hands of his executors for at lead fifteen volumes 
more. He was alfo the author of “ A Sketch of the Life 
of M. Barillon, Bifliop of Lufon,” publifhed in 1700, 
nmo, to which are annexed fome fmall treatifes, the 
productions of that prelate. 
DUBO'S (John-Baptift), abbot of Refons, an effeemed 
French writer, born in 1670, at Beauvais, of which place 
his father was a merchant and magiflrate. He was fent 
young to Paris for the ftudy of civil law, hiftory, and 
politics. He made himfelf known in 1695 by his Hiftory 
of the four Gordians proved and illuftiated by Medals, 
i2mo ; in which he attempted to prove the exiftence of 
a fourth of this imperial family, in addition to the three 
ufually reckoned. But though he difplayed erudition 
and ingenuity in fupport of this opinion, it has not been 
received by the learned. He foon after attracted the no¬ 
tice of M. de Torci, minifter for foreign affairs, who took 
him into his office, and employed him in various nego¬ 
tiations abroad. He was fent on a fecret miffion to Eng¬ 
land, in order to difpofe the nation to make peace with 
France. For that purpofe he wrote a work intitled The 
Inter-efts of England ill underftood in the prefent War, 
Araft. 1704, which was much applauded by the French 
miniftry, and was circulated with great induftry by the 
Jacobite party, but made little impreffion upon the Eng¬ 
lish nation. It is remarkable for a prediction of the fu¬ 
ture reparation of the North-American colonies, in cafe 
England ffiould become matter of that continent. In the 
midft of his political engagements he found leifure to 
publiffi, in 1709, a Hiftory of the League of Cambray 
again!! the Venetian Republic, of which an improved 
edition appeared in 172S, in two vols. nmo. an acute 
and well-written work. His Critical Reflections on Poe¬ 
try and Painting, 1719, two* vols. i2ino. (feveral times 
reprinted,) gained him high reputation as an elegant 
writer and a man of tafte. It procured him an entrance 
into’the French academy in 1720, and that body elected 
him their perpetual fecretary in 1722, in the place of 
Andrew Dacier. He next employed himfelf in elaborate 
enquiries relative to early French hiftory, which pro¬ 
duced his Critical Hiftory of the Eftablifhment of the 
French Monarchy in Gaul, three vols. quarto, i734; re¬ 
printed in x743, with additions and corrections, in two 
vols. quarto, and four vols. 121110. He died in March, 
1742. 
DUBOV'KA, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Saratov, on the weft liae of the Volga: fixty miles foutli 
of Kamifchin. 
DUBOV'KA, a fort of Ruffian Tartary, in the govern¬ 
ment of Caucafus, on the Malwa: twelve miles weft of 
Kizliar. 
DU'BRAVITZ, a town of European Turkey, in the 
province of Moldavia: thirty-fix miles north-weft of 
Galatz. 
DUBRAW', or Dubravius Scala (John), a Ger¬ 
man prelate, ftatefman, and hiftorian, in the fixteenth 
century, born at Pilfen in Bohemia. Fie was educated in 
Italy, where he received the degree of doCtor of laws; 
and afterwards entered into the fuite of Staniflaus bifliop 
of Olmutz in Moravia. After the death of Zanbeck 
bifliop of Olmutz, he was raifed to that fee, which he 
enjoyed about fix years. At different periods he was no¬ 
minated ambaffador to Silefia and to Bohemia, and he 
was made prefident of the chamber appointed by the im¬ 
perial court to conduCt proceffes againft fuch perfons as 
had joined in the proteftant league at Smalcalde. He 
died in 1553. Dubraw was the author of various works; 
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and, among others, of a Hiftory of Bohemia, in thirty- 
three Books, publifhed in 1552, which is commended for 
fidelity and accuracy. The belt editions of this hiftory 
are, one publifhed by Thomas Jourdaine in 1574, with 
the addition of genealogical tables, and chronological and 
hiftorical notes; and another publifhed at Frankfort in 
1688, accompanied with the Hiftory of Bohemia, by 
JEneas Sylvius. 
DU'BRIS, anciently a town of Britain; now Dover, 
from the Dovoria of the lower age. 
DUBRO'WA, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate 
of Wilna: feventy-four miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Wilna. 
DUBROWI'C A, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate 
of Brzefc: forty-fix miles fouth-eaft of Brzefc. 
DUC (Fronton du, in Latin Fronto Ducaiis), a learned 
French Jefuit, born at Bourdeaux, in 155S. He entered 
as a novice in the order at Verdun, in 1577, and foon re¬ 
commended himfelf to his fuperiors by the talents which 
lie difcovered, and his indefatigable application to the 
different ftudies which were aftigned him, particularly 
the belles-lettres, and the Latin and Greek languages. 
In 1597, he was fent to teach theology in the Jefuits” 
college, at Bourdeaux ; and it was at this place that lie 
began to communicate to the public the fruits of his la¬ 
borious ftudies. His firft production of importance was 
a Latin tranflation of The Works of St. Chryfoftom, in 
fix vols. folio, with notes. He was one of the moft learn¬ 
ed men and ableft critics of his day, and was at the fame 
time unafluming, modeft, and pious. His correfpondence 
was courted by the moft diftinguiffied literary characters 
among the proteftants, as well as in his own communion, 
and they entertained not only a great refpeCt, but a high 
efteem, for his character. He died in 1624. Befides his 
edition of Chryfoftom’s works already mentioned, and the 
treatifes in a controverfy with M. Mornay du Pleffis, he 
publifhed Bibliotheca Vcterum Patrum, feu Scriptorum Ecclcji- 
ajlicorum , Graco-Latinus, &c. in 1624, in two vols. folio ; 
VHijloire tragique de la Pucelle de Dom-Remy, outrement d'Or . 
leans, departie par Acles, &c. 1581, quarto; and a vaft 
number of new editions of ancient authors, particularly 
the Greek and Latin fathers, with notes and corrections, 
of which a particular detail is,given in father Niceron’s 
Memoirs. 
DUC (Nicholas le), a French prieft, in the diocefe of 
Rouen, at firft fettled on a benefice at Trouville en Caux, 
which he quitted in order to remove to Paris. He was 
for fifteen years vicar of St. Paul’s, in that city ; but in 
1731, being accufed of Janfenifm, and interdicted by the 
archbifhop from engaging in his clerical functions, he 
devoted himfelf entirely to a ftudious life. To his labours 
were the public indebted for a conliderable part of the 
tranflation of Prefident de Thou’s Hiftory, in 16 vols. 4to. 
Pfe was alfo the author of a work intitled VAnnie Ecclcfi. 
ajlique, in 15 vols. i2ino; of tranflations of fome of car¬ 
dinal Bona’s religious treatifes, &c. 
DU'CA, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 
and province of Bari: fix miles north-weft of Bari. 
DU'CAL, adj. Pertaining to a duke : as, a ducal 
coronet. 
DUCA'PE,/. A fort of filk ufed for womens gar¬ 
ments. Bailey. 
DUCA'REL (.Andrew Coltee), a diftinguiffied anti¬ 
quary, born in 1713, at Caen, in Normandy. He came 
to England with his father at an early age, and was edu¬ 
cated at Eton fchool, whence he removed to St. John’s 
college, Oxford. Pie took the degree of bachelor of 
laws in that univerfity, and, after leaving it in 1742, be¬ 
came a member of the college of DoCtors’-commons in 
1743. He made a tour in his native country in 1752, of 
which he publifhed an account in 1754, afterwards re¬ 
printed in an enlarged form under the title of Anglo- 
Norman Antiquities, folio, 1767. In 1755 he was elected 
commiflary or official of the peculiar jurifdiCtion of the 
collegiate church of St. Catharine, near the Tower of 
London, He was made librarian of the palace of Lam¬ 
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