JUSTEL (Christopher), a learned counsellor, and secretary to the French king, was born at Paris, in 1580, and applied himself to the study of ecclesiastical history. He maintained a correspondence with the most learned men of his time, as archbishop Usher, Sir Henry Spelman, Blondel, &c. till his death, which happened in 1649. He wrote, 1. The code of the canons of the church universal, and the councils of Africa, with notes. 2. A genealogical history of the house of Auvergne. And, 3. Collections of Greek
and Latin canons, from several manuscripts, which formed the Bibliotheca juris canonici veteris, published in 2 vols folio, by William Voet and our author's son.