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Bosc, Pierre Du

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a French Protestant theologian, was born at Bayeux in 1623. Louis XIV having published an edict against the Calvinists, Du Bosc was delegatetd, in 1668, to hear remonstrances on this subject. He died at Rotterdam in 1692. He wrote, Des Sermons (Rotterdam, 1671, 1692): — Des Lettres, with a sketch of his Life by Legendre (1698; a new augmented edition, 1716). See. Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.