Pierre**, a French Protestant divine, was born at Alençon in France, in the year 1641. At the time when the edict of Nantes tolerated and protected the Protestants of France, he entered upon the clerical profession, and remained minister of Rouen until the 35th year of his age. During this period he wrote several pieces upon the controversy between the Papists and the Protestants, by which he obtained great fame among his own party. The unwise revocation of the edict of Nantes drove Allix and many others to seek refuge in England. Three years after his arrival in England, he had made himself so perfectly master of the English language as to be able to write very correctly a *Defence of the Christian Religion*. This work he dedicated to James II. in testimony of gratitude for his kind reception of the distressed refugees of France. Not long after his arrival in England, he was honoured with the title of doctor of divinity, and also received the more substantial honour of being appointed treasurer of the church of Salisbury.

After having exercised his talents with much industry and learning in defence of Protestantism, he employed his pen to support the doctrine of the Trinity against the Unitarians, who contended that the idea of Christ's divinity could be traced up no higher than the time of Justin Martyr. With a great display of erudition, he attempted to prove that the Trinitarian doctrine was believed by the Jewish church. But the reputation which he had acquired for learning and ability was somewhat diminished by the ridicule he brought on himself in attempting to prove that Christ should again appear upon earth in the year 1720; or, at the latest, in 1736. This able divine died at London in 1717, at the age of 76.