Guillaume de Salluste du, a French poet, born in 1544. He was employed by Henry IV. of France, in England, Denmark, and Scotland; and he commanded a troop of horse in Gascony, under the Marshal de Mantingan. His principal work, The Week, or the Creation of the World, which has long since fallen into oblivion, once enjoyed a high reputation, thirty editions of it having been printed within six years after its appearance. It was translated into English by Joshua Sylvester. Du Bartas died in 1590, of wounds received in the battle of Ivry.