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them from the pulpit with an eloquence that vvas^ natu¬ 
ral to him, and pradtifed them in all his actions. As he 
had obtained the patronage of cardinal Richelieu, he 
was nominated to the bidiopric of Grafle, in 1636. Im¬ 
mediately after his confecration, he retired to his dio- 
cefe, where he divided his time between his Itudies and 
the diligent difcharge of his epifcopal fundtions. He died 
of a llroke of apoplexy, in 167?, at the age of fixty-fe- 
ven years. The mofl; important of his works are: i. 
TheHiftory of the Church from the Commencement of 
the World to the End of the ninth Century, in 3 vols. 
folio. This is the firft ecclefiaftical hiftory written in the 
French language; and though compofed v^ith lefs pre- 
cifion than that of the abbe Fleury, will be perufed with 
more pleafure by the generality of readers. 2. Para- 
phrafes on the Epiflles of St. Paul, and the canonical 
Jipidles, 4to. 3. The New Tellament tranllated and 
explained, in 2 vols. 8vo. to which are fiibjoined Me¬ 
ditations on the Epidle to the Hebrews. 4. Chrifcian 
Morality, for the Inftrudlion of the Cures and Priefts of 
the Diocefe of Vence, in 3 vols. 121110. 5. The Lives 
of St. Paul, St. Augultine, and St. Charles Borromeo, 
each in 410. 6. Panegyrics on fuch Billiops as in all 
Ages of the Church have been eminent for Learning and 
Sandlity, 4to. 7. Homilies. 8. Tradls, and other profe 
pieces. The Pfalms of David, tranflatcd into French 
Verfe, 121110. to which might be added a long lid of 
CJiri/Iian Eclogues, and otlier fpiritual and devotional 
Poems, more to be admired for the feniliiicnts ot piety 
wliich they breathe, than for their poetic beauties. 
GO'DEFROI (Denys), a learned jurift, the Ion of a 
counfellor of the Chatelet in Paris, where he was born 
in 1549. He dudied at Louvain, Cologne, and Heidel¬ 
berg, and upon his return to France acquired great re¬ 
putation in the parliament, in which he was nominated 
to a coxinfellor’s place. But being of the Calvinid per- 
luafion, the civil wars on account of religion caufed him 
to take refuge at Geneva, where, in 1580, he was ad¬ 
mitted a burgher, and made profelfor of law. Henry IV. 
in 1589, created him bailiff of fome villages at the foot 
of mount Jura, and a I'upernumerary counfellor in the 
parliament of Paris. He was deprived of his employ¬ 
ment and Ills library by the invafion of the duke ot Sa¬ 
voy, on which account he accepted, in 1524, the chair 
ot law in the univerlity of Strafburg. In 1604, he com¬ 
plied with tlie invitation of Frederic eleftor-palatine to 
lettle at Heidelberg. That prince, in 1618, lent him on 
an embaffy to Louis XIII. who received him with many 
marks of edecin. Again purfued by the tumults of war, 
he quitted the palatinate in 1621, and retired to Stral- 
burg, where he died in 1622. He was tlie author of, 
J. Corpus Juris Civitis cum Notis, 4to. Ltidg. 1583, many 
times reprinted ; bed editions are thole of Vitre, 1628, 
and of Elzevir, 1683, 2 vols. folio. 2. Nota in IV Libras 
hijiitutionum. 3. Opujcula varia Juris. 4. Praxis Civilis ex 
antiquis .& recentioribus Scriptoribus. 5. Index chronologicus 
Legum & Novellarum a JuJliniano Imp. compcjit. 6. Conjiietu- 
dines Civitatum & Provinciarum Gallia. 7. Quajiioncs Poli¬ 
ticos. 8. Dijjertatio de Nobilitate. 9. Statuta Regni Gallia 
cum Jure Communi collata. 10. Synopjis Slatutorum miinicipa- 
lium. II. Anliqua Hijioria ex 27 AuEloribus contexta. 12. 
Autores Latina Lingua in unum redaEii Corpus. 
GO'DEFROI (Theodore), elded Ion of the preced¬ 
ing, born at Geneva in 1580. Fie dudied in Stralburg, 
and then went to Paris, where he embraced the catholic 
religion. In 1643, the office of counfellor ot date was 
conferred upon him; and he adled during the fix lad 
years of his life as counfellor and fecretary to the French 
embafl'y for the general peace at Munder. In that city 
he (lied in 1649. He was particularly verfed in the 
genealogical hiftory of France, and publilhed feveral 
learned works for its illudration. Of thele are, i. Le 
Ceremonial de France, 4to. a curious colledlion, afterwards 
republidied by his fon Denys, in an enlarged form, in 
a vols,' folio. 2. Mem. concernant la Pre£eance des Rois de 
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France fur les Rots d'Efpagne. 3. De la veritable Origine de 
la Maifon d’Autriche. 4. Genialogie des Dues de Lorraine. 
5. Geneal. des Comtes & Dues de Bar. 6 . Gcneal. des Rois de 
Portugal ijfus de la Maifon de France. 7. Trahe touchant les 
Droits du RoiTres-chretien fur plufieurs Flats voifines. *He alfo 
edited feveral ancient French biographical works, and 
enriched them with notes and differtations. 
Gp'DEFROI (James), brotlier to the above, born at 
Geneva in 1587, imitated his father Denys in adherence 
to the reformed religion, and in the dudies of law, hif¬ 
tory, and philofophy. He was created profeflbr of law 
at Geneva, in 1619, and entered into the council in 
1629. He filled with the greated ability every public 
office with which he was entruded, and few have palfed 
a more laborious life. He was made fecretary of date; 
was five times chofen fyndio of the republic ; and was 
employed in various negociations in France, Piedmont, 
Swifferland, and Germany: at the fame time he conti¬ 
nued his public leftures in jurifprudence, and compofed 
a variety of learned works. He maintained a correfpond. 
ence with the mod learned men of the age, by whom 
he was highly refpebled. PolTelfed of tlie elleem and 
gratitude of his countrymen, lie died, u.niverfally re¬ 
gretted, in 1652. The profound erudition of James 
Godefroi is difplayed by the following works: i. Frag- 
menta Ducdecim Tabularum, 1616, republidied in 1653 in 
the Quatuor Fontes Juris Civilis. 2. Animadverfones Juris 
Civilis. 3. Opufcula varia Juridico-politica, Hiflorico-critica. 
4. Commentar. de Regulis Juris. 4. De faulofs Latronibus in. 
veftigand. 5. De Jure Pracedentia. 6. Dc Salario. 7. De 
fuburbicariis Regionibus. 8. De Statu Paganorum fab Imp. 
Chrifi. 9. Fragment a Legum Julia & Papia. 10. Codex 
Theodofanus ; this is a podhumous work, and is accounted 
a mod valuable monument of ancient jurifprudence. He 
edited the works ot Cicero, cum notis Lamhini £? Gethofredi\ 
Deferiptio Orbis, Gr. & Lat. and Philoforgii Cappadocis lliji. 
Ecclejiajl. Fie alfo made large coliec'tions for the liidory 
of Geneva, afterwards made ufe of by Spon. 
GO'DEF'ROI (Denys), fon of Theodore, born at 
Paris in 1615. He followed the Heps of his father in his 
refearches into French hidory, and reprinted feveral of 
the works edited by him, adding to them new illudra- 
tions. He was alfo the author of Memoires'B InfruElions 
pour fervir dans les Negotiations & les Affaires concernant les 
Droits du Roi, 1665, folio, which has been attributed to 
the chancellor Seguier, by whofe order it was compiled. 
He continued it to his own time, and correitled I'eron’s 
FUJI, des Offeiers de la Couronne. Fie was appointed, in 1668, 
the director and keeper of th.e chamber of accounts at 
Lille in Flanders, where he died in 1681. 
GO'DEFROI (John), Ion of the preceding, fucceed- 
ed liis father in the direiffion of the chamber of accounts 
in Lille, at vvhich place he died, much advanced in 
years, in 1732. He inherited a drong third for hidori- 
cal enquiries, and publilhed, i. The Memoirs of Philip 
de Comines, 5 vols. 8vo. 2. The Journal of Flenry III. 
2 vols. 8vo. 3. The Memoirs of Queen Margaret; and 
other pieces. He is allowed to have contributed more 
than any other writer to the elucidation of the afiairs of 
the League. His elder brother Denys, advocate in 
parliament, gave anew edition of the Satyre. Mcnippee; 
and of the Treatifes concerning the Hiftory of France, 
collected by Peter Dupin. 
GO'DERVILLE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton, 
in the didridJ of Montivilliers : three leagues north-ead 
of Montivilliers, and five north-wed of Caudebec. 
GODESCHA'LC, or Gotteschalc, furnamed FuF 
gentius, a benediftine monk in the ninth century, born hi 
Tome part of Saxony, and appears to have entered into 
the monadic order in the convent of Fulda. In the year 
846 he went to Rome, to vifit the holy places there; 
and thence proceeded to Pannonia and Dalmatia, where 
he commenced preaching the doftrine of prededination, 
which he had imbibed from clolely Itudying the writings 
