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BAU prison, but after three months he was liberated. The best of these pieces is lost; but another of like character, called "Pragmatique entre gens de Court et la Salle du Palais," has been preserved, and gives a perfect idea of the rude vigour of the author's style. He also composed some small pieces relating to the policy and manners of the time, with epigrams, songs, and ballads. At the age of about fifty-five he had become grey and broken down, according to a description left of himself. Towards 1493, Baude addressed to the king, then taking the reins of government firmly into his own hands, a prose composition in which, offering up prayers for his prosperity, he advises him to follow in the footsteps of his ancestor, Charles VII., to respect the liberties of the subject. He died about 1495.—J. F. C.  BAUDER,, councillor of commerce to the elector of Bavaria, born at Hersbruck on the 8th January, 1713, is celebrated as the discoverer of the marbles of Altdorf. For the working and polishing of these he established a factory at Nuremberg, which continued in activity for many years. Upon these marbles, and the fossils found in them, he published two distinct works in 1771 and 1772; the latter was translated into French. He also wrote two or three papers upon other geological subjects.—W. S. D.  BAUDERON,, a physician, born in 1540, at Paray in Charolais, and died in 1623. He studied at Montpellier, and settled down at Macon, where he practised medicine till his death. It is from this town that he dates the preface of a Latin work printed at Paris in 1620, in 4to, entitled "Praxis Medica in duos tractatus Distincta." He distinguished himself by his Pharmacopœia, published at Lyons, 1588, 1596, 1603, and 1628, 8vo; and since, in Latin, under the title "Pharmacopœia e Gallico in Latinum versa, a Philimone Hollando," &c.—E. L.  BAUDET,, bishop of Langres and chancellor of France under Philippe of Valois, was a native of Franche-Comtè. He died in 1339.  BAUDEWYNS,, a Flemish painter, born at Brussels in 1660; died in 1700. He exclusively treated landscapes, the figures of which, without an exception, were painted by Pieter Bout.—R. M.  BAUDIER,, a historian, born in Languedoc in 1589. He held some situation about court, as is implied by the title always given him of "gentilhomme de la maison du roi, et d'historiagraphe de France." His limited fortune was spent in the purchase of manuscripts, and in making collections of medals, as well as in indulging his taste for the fine arts. His voluminous writings were much read at the time of publication during his life. They are principally historical, the most remarkable of which relate to Turkey and China. His life of Cardinal Ximenes is regarded as one of the most interesting of his different biographies. He died in 1645.—J. F. C.  BAUDIN, ___, a celebrated Jacobin priest, was episcopal vicar in the diocese of Paris at the commencement of the Revolution. He was associated with Hentz and Francastel in the Vendean commission, and imprisoned eight months for opposing the excesses of his colleagues. His last employment was that of administrator of the hospitals of Paris. Died in 1830.—J. S., G.  * BAUDIN,, a French vice-admiral, son of Pierre-Charles-Louis, born at Sedan, 1784. He entered the service in 1799, and in 1808 assisted in a naval combat against the English in the Indian seas, when his right arm was carried away by a bullet. He continued his career, notwithstanding this casualty, and in 1814 was raised to the rank of captain. On the return of the Bourbons he retired from the service, and established a commercial house in Havre. This undertaking was, for a time, attended with great prosperity; but after the revolution of 1830, it became involved in pecuniary difficulties, and was given up by Baudin, after honourably paying all his creditors. He now returned to his old profession, and was employed in several important public services, for which he was rewarded in 1848 by being raised to the dignity of grand-cordon of the legion of honour.—G. M. <section end="452H" /> <section begin="452I" />BAUDIN,, one of the actors in the French Revolution, born at Sedan, 18th December, 1748; died 14th October, 1799. He was at first destined for the bar, but the banishment of the parliament of Paris in 1771, constrained him to relinquish the profession of the law. He then became tutor to the children of the president, Gilbert de Voisins, and in 1786 he was director of posts in his native town. Here he was so much respected by his fellow-townsmen, that in 1790 they elected him to the office of mayor, and the following year, appointed him their representative in the legislative assembly, where he formed one of the committee of public instruction. He continued during the remainder of his life to take an active part in public affairs.—G. M. <section end="452I" /> <section begin="452J" />* BAUDISSIN, , was born of an old noble family at Rantzau in Holstein, 30th January, 1789. After completing his academical course, he was successively appointed secretary to the Danish legations at Stockholm, Vienna, and Paris, from 1810-1814; but in 1813 was imprisoned during six months at the fortress of Fredericksort, for his ardent German sympathies. He then travelled for several years in France, Italy, and Greece, and, on his return, settled at Dresden, where he became intimately acquainted with L. Tieck, whom he materially assisted in completing Schlegel's translation of Shakspeare. He and Tieck's accomplished daughter, Dorothy, were the real translators, whilst Tieck himself only revised and edited the work. He also translated the plays edited by his celebrated friend, under the title "Shakspeare's Vorschule." Under his own name he published "Ben Jonson und seine Schule," as well as translations into modern German of the two middle German poems of "Iwein mit dem Löwen," by Hartmann von Aue, and "Wigalois mit dem Rade."—K. E. <section end="452J" /> <section begin="452K" />BAUDIUS or BAUDIER,, a historian and poet, born at Lille in 1561; died in 1613. He commenced his studies at Leyden, and finished them at Geneva under Beza. He has acquired a reputation as a Latin writer to which few of his age can pretend. His prose is characterized by the easy flow and graceful diction of Cicero. His poems, though somewhat tinctured with misanthropy, seem to have emanated from a warm heart and philosophic spirit.—J. G. <section end="452K" /> <section begin="452L" />BAUDOIN or BAUDOUIN, surnamed, a French poet, lived in the beginning of the thirteenth century. His works are preserved in manuscript in the imperial library. <section end="452L" /> <section begin="452M" />BAUDOUIN,, a French theologian and writer on jurisprudence, author of a "Commentary on the Institutes of Justinian," was born at Arras in 1520, and died at Paris in 1573. He taught law at the universities of Angers and Paris, was present at the council of Trent as representative of the king of Navarre, and latterly became counsellor to Henry III. of France.—J. S., G. <section end="452M" /> <section begin="452N" />BAUDOUIN,, a French abbé, celebrated for his benevolent exertions in establishing a foundling hospital in the capital of Poland, was born at Avesnes in Flanders in 1689, and died at Warsaw in 1768. <section end="452N" /> <section begin="452O" />BAUDOUIN, a Flemish monk, who wrote a chronicle of the first thirteen centuries of our era, preserved in MS. in the abbey of Ninove, of which he was canon. <section end="452O" /> <section begin="452P" />BAUDOUIN, also called , author of a "Universal History," was curé of Paderborn about the year 1418. <section end="452P" /> <section begin="452Q" />BAUDOUIN D'AVESNE,, a French chronicler, author of the "Histoire Genealogique des Comtes de Hainault," was a descendant of that family. Died in 1289. <section end="452Q" /> <section begin="452R" />BAUDRAIS,, a French writer, born at Tours, August, 1749. His career was very singular. He celebrated the birth of the dauphin in 1781 by a musical drama, and in 1783 the peace in a production of a similar kind. On the outbreak of the Revolution, he, as commissioner of his district, signed assignats, and, as member of the municipality, witnessed the trial of the unfortunate Louis XVI. Under the Reign of Terror he filled the office of censor, and subsequently was appointed to a magistracy at Guadaloupe. This post he had already held for three years, when he was accused of being an accomplice in the attempt to destroy Buonaparte by an infernal machine. Although at the time of the conspiracy he was fifteen hundred leagues distant from Paris, he was transported to Cayenne. There, however, he obtained employment under government, of which he was again deprived for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to the emperor. He retired to the United States, supported himself by his industry during thirteen years, and returned to France in 1817, when thought to be dead. He died 4th May, 1832, and left several dramatic pieces, songs, &c.—J. F. C. <section end="452R" /> <section begin="452S" />BAUDRAN,, was judge in the tribunal of the district of Vienne in Dauphiné, when, in 1792, he was chosen deputy of the national convention, in which he voted for the death of the king. Died in 1812. <section end="452S" /> <section begin="452Zcontin" />BAUDRAND,, Count, a <section end="452Zcontin" />