Dominicus, professor of history in the university of Leyden, was born at Lisle in 1561. He studied at Aix-la-Chapelle, at Leyden, and at Geneva, and was admitted doctor of law in 1585. Soon after he accompanied the ambassadors from the states to England, where he became acquainted with several persons of distinction, particularly the famous Sir Philip Sidney. He was admitted advocate at the Hague in January 1587; but becoming weary of the bar, he went to travel in France, where he remained ten years. In 1592, Achilles de Harlai, first president of the parliament of Paris, obtained for him the appointment of advocate of the parliament of Paris. In 1602 he went to England with Christopher de Harlai, the president's son, who was sent as ambassador to England by Henry the Great. In the course of the same year he was made professor of eloquence at Leyden, and settled in that university. In 1611 the states conferred upon him the office of historiographer in conjunction with Meursius; and in consequence of this appointment he wrote The History of the Trace. The disgrace he brought on himself by his irregular life is said to have hastened his end. He died at Leyden in 1613. As a Latin writer, both in prose and verse, Bau dius was excelled by few of his contemporaries.

BAUGÉ, an arrondissement, department of Maine and Loire, in France, comprehending six cantons and sixty-six communes. Area 543 square miles; pop. 79,713. The chief place of the same name is situated on the river Couanon; pop. in 1851, 3147, principally employed in making serges and other woollen goods.