6a8 
5. Vindicia proscholastico: ortho- 
doxo adversus  Leonardum Petinum, 
Jesuitam, &c. 1630. 
6.C diechisme general de la Reforma- 
tion de la Religion preché dans Metz. 
Ledan, 1654. The two principal pro-~ 
positions inthis work were; first, that 
the reformation was necessary ;° aod 
secondly, that although formerly the 
Roman church was sufficient for sal- 
vation, yet this was no lonzer the 
ce since the reformation. 
.Faneral orations, of Louis XIIT. 
published in 1643, and Anne of Aus- 
iria in 1666, together with prayers, 
which have been. praised by Bayle. 
8. Reponse al’ Histoire de i nais- 
sapce, du progres, et de la decadence 
de l Heresie de la Ville de Metz: this 
consists of 3 vols in folio; all in ma- 
nuscript. 
9. Quelques autres Traités MSS. 
outre ure infinite de Sermons onze 
cents entre autres de comptes fats 
sur la seule Epitre aux Hébreux. 
*, © Eloge de Boissy d’Anglos, &c.’ 
An Eulogium pronounced by the Fe- 
nator Count Boissy d’Anzlas, president 
of the Class of History and Ancient: 
Literature of the Institute, a Com- 
mander of the Legion of Honour, &c. 
&c. &c. over the tomb of his col- 
league M. de Sainte Croix. 
«« The Institute of France, in render- 
ing to M. de Sainte Croix the sad and 
painful duty which we are now ful- 
filling towards him,’ sayshe, ‘does 
ot merely acquit its own debt; it 
“deplores a pubiic loss; and the regrets 
J am cha:ged to express, are not yours 
alone, but those of all men worthy 
of appreciating great labours, or re- 
wering the noble. virtues. 
in this funeral mansion, where all the 
social di tinciions for ever disappear, 
amidst the eternal night of the tomb, 
where all the efforts on the. part of 
vanity, to preserve some few traces on 
a marble equally perishable with it. 
self, only serves io make the nothing- 
ness of man still more conspicuous 5 ; 
itis not, I say, in this asy- 
hase of death, that I dare recal the 
birth of M.de Sainte Croix as ene of 
the motives of yourregret; . - 
_# Lremark that it was ictal. it is 
but to praise him, for having escaped, 
“potwithstanding this, from ‘all the se- 
ductions of rank, from all the lures 
_of am bition, from all the caresses of, 
foriune, merely to follow the instinct 
“of bis genius, and to prefer the real 
it is nol. 
Retrospect of French Literature— Biography. 
glory he aimed at, to all the lustre’ 
which was to be derived from his 
ancestors. 
‘¢ Born in one of those portions | of 
France, where the eye is incessantly 
struck with the magnificent remains 
of crandeur, which: in obeying the 
common law has disappeared from the 
earth, bat the ruins of. which have 
survived: twenty centuries, to inflame 
the heart and elevate the soul, -M. de. 
Sainte Croix was early fascinated with 
the imperious desire to explain the 
object which attracted his notice. He. 
accordingly became an antiquary on 
beholding the finest monuments of an-' 
tiquity, and an historian as well as a. 
learned man,:in the same manner that © 
La Fontaine became a poet, and Cor- 
regio. a painter . . . by one of 
those sudden inspirations, which in- 
forming man of his strength, and com- 
municating the secret of his. genius, 
points on ‘the career ‘to which nature 
has destined him. 
** In a short time, the ancient ‘dijon : 
became equally familiar with his na- 
live tongue ; Ina short time, his own 
researches, enlightened by the flambeau 
of Cienibias conducted him across the 
ocean of time, and rendered him, in 
some degree, the contemporary of 
past ages; from that moment, the 
most distant antiquity had no longer 
any- mysteries for him, or the night of. 
time any more shadows. The learned 
portion of Europe, justly prizing his 
penetration and acquirements, in him 
behold ene of those who could add to 
the mass of her discoveries. While 
still young, he was reckone ed among: 
the most distinguished of his country+ 
men, and the Academy of Belles Lettre: y 
whose labours you have continued, 
while you have revived its glory, 
after several times bestowing Crowns, 
hasteved to admit him as one of its 
members. Seated along wiih the most 
abie and enlightened persons of his 
time, some of whom advanced be- 
fore him to the tomb, while others, 
for the advantage of hortenss still ho- 
nour the third class of the lusittule, 
M. de Sainie Croix acquired new 10- 
formation ia return for what he him- 
self communicated ; his emulation en- 
creased with his knowledge, aud nu- 
merous productions soon sealed his 
renown. : 
“ But it sometimes .happens that 
great erudition may be wanting in 
point of utility, amd thus appear se me 
