BASNAGE, JACQUES (1653-1723)

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BASNAGE, JACQUES (1653-1723) , French

Protestant

PROTESTANT

divine, was the eldest son of the eminent lawyer Henri Basnage, sieur de Franquenay (16151695), and was born at Rouen in Normandy in 1653. He studied classical languages at Saumur and afterwards theology at Geneva. He was pastor at Rouen (his native place) from 1676 till 1685, when, on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, he obtained leave of the king to retire to Holland. He settled at Rotterdam as a minister

pensionary

PENSIONARY

till 1691, when he was chosen pastor of the Walloon church. In 1709 the grand

pensionary

PENSIONARY

A. Heinsius (16411720) secured his election as one of the pastors of the Walloon church at the Hague, intending to employ him mainly in civil affairs. Accordingly he was engaged in a

secret

SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

negotiation with

Marshal

MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

d'Uxelles, plenipotentiary of France at the congress of Utrechta service which he executed with so much success that he was entrusted with several important commissions, all of which he discharged with

great

GREAT

ability. In 1716

Dubois

, who was at the Hague at the instance of the regent Orleans, for the purpose of negotiating the Triple Alliance between France,

Great

GREAT

Britain and Holland, sought the advice of Basnage, who, in spite of the fact that he had failed to receive permission to return to France on a short visit the year before, did his best to further the negotiations. The French government also turned to him for help in view of the threatened rising in the Cevennes. Basnage had welcomed the revival of the

Protestant

PROTESTANT

church due to the zeal of

Antoine

ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

Court; but he assured the regent that no danger of active resistance was to be feared from it, and, true to the principles of Calvin, he denounced the rebellion of the Camisards (q.v.) in his Instructions pastorales aux Reformer de France sur l'obeissance due aux souverains (Paris, 1720), which was printed by order of the court and scattered broadcast in the

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

of France. Basnage died on the 22nd of September 1723.
Basnage was a good preacher and a prolific writer. His works include several dogmatic and polemical treatises, but the most important are the historical. Of these may be mentioned Histoire de la religion des eglises reformees (Rotterdam, 1690), the Histoire de l'eglise depuis Jesus-Christ jusqu'd present (ib. 1699)both of them written from the point of view of Protestant polemicsand, of greater scientific value, the Histoire des Juifs (Rotterdam, 1706, Eng. trans. 1708) and the Antiquites judaiques ou remarques critiques sur la republique des Hebreux (1713). He. also wrote short explanatory introductions and notes to a collection of copper-

plate

PLATE

engravings, much valued by connoisseurs, called Histoires du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament, representees par des figures gravees en faille-douce par" R. de Hooge (

Amsterdam

AMSTERDAM
AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

, 1704).

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