DANIEL

DANIEL, Gabriel, an ingenious and learned Frenchman, was born at Rouen in 1649. He taught polite literature, philosophy, and divinity among the Jesuits, and was the superior of their house at Paris, where he died in 1728. There are a great number of his works published in French, of which the principal are, 1. The History of France, Paris, 1713, 3 vols. folio, of which he published, in 1722, an edition, revised, corrected, augmented, and enriched with several authentic medals, in 7 vols. 4to; 2. Dialogue between Cleander and Eudoxus, being an answer to the Provincial Letters of Pascal; 3. A Defence of St Augustin; 4. A Theological Tract on the Efficacy of Grace, in 2 vols.; 5. Histoire de la Milice Française, 2 vols. 4to. The best edition of his history is that of 1757, in 17 vols. 4to.