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Ba-ta. which undoubtedly represents Bubastis.is in N. lat,30 36', E. long. 31° 33'. Kitto. See Wilkinson, '/- / > Egypt, i, 300, 427 129; Ritter, Erdkunde, i, 825 ; Rosellini, Monum. Storichi, ii. 76 sq.; Mannert, Geoff. x, i, 588sq. ; Malus, inthe Descr.di rEgypte,iii,307.
Pic, Jbas, a young French < )i ri-t ian. suffered mar- tyrdom for bis devotion to the Protestant cause. He was born in 1546, and flourished at Touniay. Togeth- er with his friend, Hugo Destailleur, accused of heresy, they were proven to have circulated the Genevese tracts, and refusing to recant, were imprisoned; ami March 22, 1565, were sentenced to be burned to death. They died faithful i" the Lord they had decided to rerve. S( e Hurst, Martyrs to the Tract Cause, p. 154-164.
Pioard, Jean (1), a French priest, is noted especially as an astronomer. He was born at La Fleche. in the present department of the Sarthe, and after taking holy orders became prior of Rille, in the same department. He gave himself largely to astronomic studies, and many are Ins publications in this department of natu- ral science. 1'ieard died at l'aris July 12, 1682. For a list of his publications, "which are not of special in- terest to us, we refer to Condorcet, Eloge dt Picard; Fontenelle, Eloge de Picard; and the Biograpku Uni- ri rsi II' . s. v.
Picard, Jean (2), a French humanist, was bom in Beauvais in the 16th century. He was regular canon of St. Victor, in l'aris. He died in 1617. We owe to him the edition of the chronicle of Guillaume de Neubourg < I>< rebus Angiitis \ l'aris. 1610, 8vo . lib. v), accompanied by the life of the author and historical notes, and that of the (Euvresd* St. /;- rnard{ l'aris. 1615, Col. i. See Mon;ri. Diet. Hist. s. v.; Papillon, Bibb de Burgogne,s.v. Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generate, xl, 47.
Picard, John. See Picards.
Picard, Matlmrin, a French ecclesiastic who flourished in the early pan of the 17th century, was curate of Mesnil-Jourdain, in the diocese of Evreux. Picard is the author of a quaint hook, which has be-
( ie very rare. /.< Foiiet des Paiilards, ou juste Puni-
tton des Voluptueux el Charnels (Rouen, 1623, 12mo). He incurred the same accusations as Drbain Grandier,
and was d ed to the same penalty. His alleged
crime was bewitching the nuns of Saint-Louis of Lou- viers, and sundry acts of profanation and debauchery.
As he was tried after his death, his body was exhumed and burned at Rouen, in execution of a judgment ren- der, d Aug. 21, ldl7. See Frere. BibUogr. Normande. -
Hoefer, Knur. Ji'mg. (jiiterule, si, 18.
Picardet, Charles N., a French priest, was born at Dijon near the beginning of the 18th century. I'm fore the Revolution he was canon of Saint-Jean-Baptiste of Dijon, and prior of Neuilly, near that city. He died about 1 70 1. We have of his works. Essai sur V Education des petits Enfants i Dijon. 1756, l2mo) : Les deux Abdolonymes (ibid. 1779, 8vo): -and Eistoin m.eteorologiqu< gique, et economiqve pour TAnnei 1785. lie had under- taken a considerable work, which, under the title of ' [pologetigue, was to contain the refutation of
all heroic-, since the establishment oft Ihristianity. See ; . I [oefer, Kouv. Biog. Gene- ral . xl. •'>.'!.
Picards, a Christian sect of heretics which arose in Bohemia inthe loth century. John Picard, the founder
of the sect. w hence lie ir name, drew alter him m< □ and women to whom he promised that he woidd restore them to the primitive state ot innocence wherein man was created. With this pretence he taught them to
give themselves up to all impurity, saying that th. r< in
consisted the liberty of the sons of God, and all those not of their sect wen1 in bondage. He first published his notions in Germany and the Low Countries, and persuaded many people to go naki d, and gave them the inline of A damites (q. v.) ; and accordingly he assumed the title of New Adam. After this he seized on an isl-
and in the river Lausnecz, some leagues from Tabor, the headquarters of Zisca, u here he established himself and his followers. His women were common, but none were allowed to enjoy them without his permission; bo that when any man desired a particular woman he car- ried her to Picard, who gave him leave in these words: •■ < So, increase, multiply, and till the earth." At length, however, Zisca, general of the Hussites i famous for his victories over the emperor Sigism | at their
abominations, marched against them, made himself mas- ter of their island, and put them all to death ex© pi two, w hom he -pared that he might learn their doctrine.
Such i- the account which various writers, relying on the authorities of .Lneas Sihius and Yarillas. have given of the Picards. Some, however, doubt whether a sect of this denomination, chargeable with such wild principles and such wild conduct, ever existed. It ap- pears probable that the reproachful representations of the writers just mentioned wore calumnies invented and propagated in order to disgrace the Picards, men ly because they deserted the communion and protested against the errors of the Church of Rome. Lasitius in- forms us that Picard, together with forty other persons, besides women and children, settled in Bohemia in the year 1 11*. Balbinus, the Jesuit, in his Epitotm Rerum Boh mini, -a in. lib. ii. gives a similar account, and charges on the Picards i • ol the extravagances or crimes as- cribed to them by Sylvius. Schlecta. secretary ol La- dislaus, king of Bohemia, in his letters to Erasmus, in which he gives a particular account of the Picards, says that they considered the pope, cardinals, and bish- op- of R e a- the true antichrists: ami tin- adorers of