GODEAU (Anthony), bishop of Grasse and Venice in France, was born at Dreux in 1605. He was a very voluminous writer, both in prose and verse; but his principal works are, 1. An ecclesiastical history, 3 vols. folio, containing the first eight centuries only, as he never finished more. 2. Translation of the Psalms into French verse; which was so well approved, that even those of the reformed religion preferred it to that of Marat. He died in 1671.