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DAILLE (DALLAEes), JEAN French Prot estant divine, was born at Chatellerault and educated at Poitiers and Saumur. In 1625 he became minister of the church of Sau mur, and in 1626 of the church of Charenton. Of his works the best known is the treatise Du vrai emploi des Peres 0631), trans lated into English by Thomas Smith under the title A Treatise concerning the right use of the Fathers (1651) . He was president of the last national synod held in France, which met at Loudun in 1659 (H. M. Baird, The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1895, i. pp. 412 ff.), when he defended the universalism of Moses Amyraut.

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