(Dallaeus) Jean, 1594–1670, one of the most learned Protestant divines of the seventeenth century, was born at Châtellerault, and received his education at Poitiers and Saumur. He was tutor to two of the grandsons of the illustrious M. du Plessis Mornay, and accompanied them in their tours through Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Flanders, Holland, and England. Having been ordained to the ministry in 1623, he preached for some time in the family of M. du Plessis Mornay; and on the death of his patron, he devoted himself to the grateful task of drawing up his Memoirs. In 1625 Daillé was appointed minister of the church of Saumur, and in 1626 he removed to Paris. Of his works, which are principally controversial, the most important is the celebrated treatise On the Use of the Fathers, originally published both in French and English. He was greatly esteemed, even by his antagonists; and his mild and amiable disposition, united to his learning and genius, led Balzac to exclaim, "Cum talis sis, utinam noster esset." In his famous Sermons on the Philippians and Colossians, Daillé has vindicated his claim to be ranked as one of