DANIEL, Gabriel, a learned French historian, born at Rouen in 1649. He early entered the order of the Jesuits, and at his death in 1728 he was superior of the house of that order in Paris. He is best known by his Histoire de France depuis l'Établissement de la Monarchie Française; and his Entretiens de Cléante et d'Eudoxe sur les Lettres Provinciales, in which he attempted an elaborate reply to the brilliant sallies of Pascal. His Histoire de la Milice Française contains an account of the French military establishment till the time of Louis XIV.