DESIDERIUS, in French Hérault, a counsellor of the parliament of Paris, has given good proofs of uncommon learning by very different works. His Adversaria appeared in 1599; which little book, if the Scaligeriana may be credited, he repented the having published. His notes on Tertullian's Apology, on Minutius Felix, and on Amobius, have been esteemed. He also wrote notes on Martial's Epigrams. He disguised himself under the name of David Leithrefferus, to write a political dissertation on the independence of kings, sometime after the death of Henry IV. He had a controversy with Salmasius, De jure Attico ac Romano; but did not live to finish what he had written on that subject. What he had done, however, was printed in 1650. He died in June 1649. Guy Patin says, that "he was looked upon as a very learned man, both in the civil law and in polite literature, and wrote with great facility on any subject he pitched on." Gaille, speaking of such Protestant writers as condemned the executing of Charles I. king of England, quotes the Pacifique Royal en devil, by Hérault. This author, son to our Desiderius Heraldus, was a minister in Normandy, when he was called to the service of the Walloon-church of London under Charles I., and he was so zealous a royalist, that he was forced to fly to France, to escape the fury of the commonwealthmen. He returned to England after the Restoration, and resumed his ancient employment in the Walloon-church at London; some time after which he obtained a canonry in the cathedral of Canterbury, and enjoyed it till his death.