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BERNARD, JACQUES (1658--1718)

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BERNARD, JACQUES (1658--1718) , See also:French theologian and publicist, was See also:born at Nions in See also:Dauphine on the 1st of See also:September 1658. Having studied at See also:Geneva, he returned to See also:France in 1679, and was chosen See also:minister of Venterol in Dauphine, whence he afterwards removed to the See also:church of Vinsobres. As he continued to preach the reformed doctrines in opposition to the royal See also:ordinance, he was obliged to leave the See also:country and retired to See also:Holland, where he was well received and appointed one of the See also:pensionary ministers of See also:Gouda. In See also:July 1686 he commenced his Histoire abregee de t'See also:Europe, which he continued monthly till See also:December r688. In 1692 he began is Lettres historiques, containing an See also:account of the most important transactions in Europe; he carried on this See also:work till the end of 1688, after which it was continued by others. When Le Clerc discontinued his Bibliotheque universe/le in 1691, Bernard wrote the greater See also:part of the twentieth See also:volume and the five following volumes. In 1698 he collected and published Ades et negociations de la paix de Ryswic, in four volumes r 2mo. In 1699 he began a continuation of See also:Bayle's Nouvelles de la republique See also:des lettres, which continued till December 1710. In 1705 he was unanimously elected one of the ministers of the Walloon church at See also:Leiden; and about the same See also:time he succeeded M. de Valder in the See also:chair of See also:philosophy and See also:mathematics at Leiden. In 1716 he published a supplement to Moreri's See also:dictionary, in two volumes See also:folio. The same See also:year he resumed his Nouvelles de la rlpublique des lettres, and continued it till his See also:death, on the 27th of See also:April 1718. Besides the See also:works above mentioned, he was the author of two See also:practical See also:treatises, one on See also:late repentance (1712), the other on the excellence of See also:religion (1714).

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