Romanists, especially the Jesuits, was born at Buhy, in the Vexin, Oct. 18, 1568, He studied first at the I'rot- estaiit school in Sedan, and next at the English high school at Cambridge, from which univefsity he re- moved, after a four-years' stay, to accept the professor- ship of philosophy at Leyden. This professorship he held for live or six years, and had several disciples who afterwards became famous; among the rest, Hugo Gro- tius. He read lectures upon Aristotle, and disciplined his scholars in the art of disputing, of which he made himself so great a master that he was always the scourge and terror of tlie papists. Scaliger was very much his patron, and when Du Moulin published his Logic at Leyden in 159G was so gracious as to say of the epistle prefatory, " Haec epistola non est hujus »vi." In the di- vinity schools he also taught Greek, in which he was ex- tremely well skilled, as appears from his book entitled Novitas Papismi, in which he exposes cardinal Perron's ignorance of that language. In 1599 he returned to France, and became minister at Charenton, near Paris, and chaplain to Catharine of Bourbon, the king's sister, and then the wife of Henry of Lorraine. It is generally believed that Catharine's faithfulness to the Protestant cause is due to Hu Moulin's influence. On the assassina- tion of Henry IV, Du Moulin charged the guilt of that detestable deed upon the Jesuits, which produced a vio- lent controversy between him and some of that society. Cotton, a Jesuit, then chaplain at court, was vainly struggling to free the Society of Jesus from the imputa- tion which had been generally placed upon it that Ea- vaillac had been incited by them and their doctrines to this bloody deed, and finally even published a book in defence of the order. Du Moulin, however, believing the Jesuits guilty, replied in his Anti-Cotton, or a Ref- utation of Father Cotton, wherein is proved that the Jesuits were the real authors of that execrable parricide. In 11)15, James I, who had long been in correspondence with Du Moulin by letters, invited him to England ; but his Church would not suffer him to go till he had given a solemn promise in the face of his congregation that he would return to them at the end of three months. The king received him with great affection; took him to Camliridge at the time of the commencement, where he was lionored with a doctor's degree; and at his de- parture from England presented him with a prebend in the cluirch of Canterbur}'. On his return to France, Du !MouUn had again innumerable disputes with the Jesuits ; and when they found that nothing was to be done with him in this way, they made use of others. They tried to bring him over to them by the promise of great rewards; and they attempted more than once his life, so that he was obliged at length always to have a guard. In 1G17, when the United Provinces desired the Keformod churches of England, France, and Ger- many to send some of their ministers to the Synod of Dort, Du Moulin and three others were deputed by the Galilean Church, but were forbidden to go by the king upon pain of death. In 1G18 he had an invitation from Leyden to fill the divinity chair, which was vacant, but he refused it. In 16"2(), when he was preparing to go to the National Synod of the Galilean Church, baron Herbert of Cherbury, then ambassador from Britain at the court of France, asked him to write to king James, and to urae liim, if possible, to undertake the defence of his siin-in-law, the king of Bohemia. Du jMoulin declined the oflice ; but the ambassador, knowing his interest with James, would not admit of any excuse. This brought him into trouble, for it was soon after de- creed by an order of Parliament that he should be seized and imprisoned for having solicited a foreign prince to take up arms for the Protestant churches. Apprised of this, lie secretly betook himself to the ambassador Herbert, who, suspecting that his letters to the king were intercepted, advised him to fly, as the only means of pro- viding for his safety. Du Moulin finally went to Sedan, and there accepted the divinity professorship and the ministry of the Church, both which he held till the time
of his death, which occurred March 10, 1G58. In 1623, when cardinal Perron's book was published against king James, Du Moulin took a journey into England, and at the king's instigation answered it in a work published at Sedan, after the death of James, under the title of No- vitas Papismi, sive Perronii confutatio, regisque Jacohi, sed ma<jis sacrce veritatis defensio. A list of Du IMoulin's works, to the number of seventy-five, is given by Aymon (Sipiodes de France, ii, 273). He also published many of his sermons. He was a violent opponent of Arminian- ism, and attacked Amyraldus (q. v.) bitterly in his Be Moses Amiiraldi Libro judicium. His most important works are, The Buckler of the Faith, or a Defence of the Confession of the Reformed Churches in France against M. Arnoux, the Jesuit (3d ed. Lond, 1631, 4to) :— Z,e Combat Chretien (8vo) -.—A natomie de la Messe (Sedan, 1636, 12mo). See Nicholls, Calvinism and Arniinianism compared, i, 224 ; Bates, Vitce, p. 697 sq. ; Sax, Onomas- ticon, iv, 179; Haag, La France Protestante, iv, 420; Schweizer, Centraldogmen, ii, 225 sq., 564 sq. ; Ebrard, Doymaiik, vol. i, § 43 ; Vinet, Histoire de la Predication parmi les Reformes en France au 11'"' siecle (Par. 1860). (J.H.W.)