CAUSSIN, NICHOLAS, surnamed the Just, a French Jesuit, born at Troyes in Champagne, in 1593. He taught rhetoric in several of the colleges of the order, and as a preacher gained great reputation. This procured him the preferment to the office of confessor to Louis XIII.; but he discharged his duties too faithfully for Cardinal Richelieu, who procured his dismissal. He was exiled for some time, but afterwards returned, and died in the Jesuits' convent at Paris in 1651. The most popular of his works, which are numerous, is that entitled La Cour Sainte, 5 vols. 12mo.