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GALLARS [in See also:Lat. GALLASIUS], See also:NICOLAS See also:DES (c. 1520-c. 1580) , Calvinistic divine, first appears as author of a Defensio of See also:William See also:Farel, published at See also:Geneva in 1545, followed (1545–1J49) by See also:translations into See also:French of three tracts by See also:Calvin. In 1J51 he was admitted See also:burgess of Geneva, and in 1553 made pastor of a See also:country See also:church in the neighbourhood. In 1557 he was sent to See also:minister to the Protestants at See also:Paris; his conductor, Nicolas du See also:Rousseau, having prohibited books in his See also:possession, was executed at See also:Dijon; des Gallars, having nothing suspicious about him, continued his See also:journey. On the revival of the Strangers' church in See also:London (156o), he, being then minister at Geneva, came to London to organize the French See also:branch; and in 1561 he published La Forme de See also:police ecclesiaslique instituee a Londres en l'Eglise des FranQois. In the same See also:year he assisted See also:Beza at the colloquy of See also:Poissy. He became minister to the Protestants at See also:Orleans in 1564; presided at the See also:synod of Paris in 1565; was driven out of Orleans with other Protestants in 1568; and in 1571 was See also:chaplain to Jeanne d'See also:Albret, See also:queen of See also:Navarre. Calvin held him in high esteem, employing him as See also:amanuensis, and as editor as well as translator of several of his exegetical and polemical See also:works. He himself wrote a commentary on See also:Exodus (156o); edited an annotated French See also:Bible (1562) and New Testament (1562); and published tracts against Arians (1565-1566). His See also:main See also:work was his edition of See also:Irenaeus (1570) with prefatory See also:letter to See also:Grindal, then See also:bishop of London, and giving, for the first See also:time, some fragments of the See also:Greek See also:text.

His collaboration with Beza in the Histoire des Eglises Reformees du royaume de See also:

France (158o) is doubted by See also:Bayle. See Bayle, Dictionnaire kist. et crit. ; See also:Jean See also:Senebier, Hist. litteraire de Geneve (1786); Nouvelle Biog. gen. (1857), (A.

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