or Bongarsius, Jacques,** counsellor and maître d'hôtel to Henri IV., and one of the ablest critics of his time, was born at Orleans in 1546. He studied the belles-lettres at Strasbourg under an anabaptist professor, and law at Bourges under Cajus. He was for about thirty years employed in the most important negotiations of Henri IV. at the courts of the princes of Germany, first as resident, and afterwards as ambassador. Bongars was a Protestant, and happening to be at Rome when Sixtus V. inflamed his famous bull of excommunication against Henri IV., he wrote a spirited answer, which he had the boldness to post up in a conspicuous place, and which was afterwards published with his name in the Mémoires de la Ligue. He died at Paris July 29, 1612. His printed works are, 1. A Collection of the Historians of the Crusades, under the title of Gesta Dei per Francos, Hanau, 1611, fol.; 2. Jacobi Bongarsi Epistolae, Lugd. Bat. 1641; 3. Collectio Hungaricarum Rerum Scriptorum, Francof. 1690, fol.; 4. An edition of Justin, with learned notes; besides notes on Petronius, and various readings of Paulus Diaconus.