Works
Of his numerous works the following are the most conspicuous:
- Histoire de Hollande depuis la trève de ióop Jusqu’d 1690 (4 vols. 1693), a continuation of Grotius, and published under the name of La Neuville
- Les Vies des saints (4 vols. 1701)
- Des Satires personelles, traité historique et critique de celles qui portent le litre d’Anti (2 vols. 1689)
- La vie de monsieur Des-Cartes (2 vols. 1691)
- La vie de mr. Des-Cartes. Réduite en abregé (1692)
- Auteurs déguisés sous des noms étrangers, empruntes, &c. (1690)
- Jugemens des savans sur les principaux ouvrages des auteurs (9 vols. 1685—1686).
The last is the most celebrated and useful of all his works. At the time of his death he was engaged on a Dictionnaire universelle ecclésiastique. The praise bestowed on the Jansenists in the Jugemens des savans brought down on Baillet the hatred of the Jesuits, and his Vie des saints, in which he brought his critical mind to bear on the question of miracles, caused some scandal. His Vie de Descartes is a mine of information on the philosopher and his work, derived from numerous unimpeachable authorities.
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