NICOLAS, a French translator, was born at Chalois-sur-Marne in 1606, and was called to the French bar at the age of eighteen. His disposition seems to have been impulsive and changeable. He grew tired of law in a short time, and betook himself to literature. He became fastidious about religion, and passed from Protestantism to Popery, and from Popery back to Protestantism. Nor was he less undecided as to his place of abode. He retired from Paris to Holland, left Holland to sojourn in England, returned from England to Paris, and ultimately fixed his residence at his family seat of Ablancourt. Yet, in the meantime, Perrot was steadily engaged in translating Tacitus, Thucydides, Cæsar, Lucian, Minutius Felix, the Analasis of Xenophon, four Orations of Cicero, Arrian's Wars of Alexander, Frontinus' Stratagemmata, and the Apophthegms of the ancients. These translations were appreciated on their first appearance for the elegance and happy freedom with which they gave the sense of the originals. They were, however, deficient in correctness, a fault which has long since led to their complete neglect. The death of Perrot happened in 1664.