early Scholastic divines, and some of the writers among the Dominicans of Spain. He wrote a considerable number of works against the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, which had a wide circulation, and were translated into several foreign languages. Among them were Quatre raisons pour lesquelles on doit quitter la R. P. R. (Paris, 1631); Quatre raisons qui traitent de l'eucharistie, du purgatoire, du péché originel et de la prédestination (1662), and Le Tombeau de la Messe (Geneva, 1654), a translation of which was issued at London in 1673, with this rather premature title, The Funeral of the Mass, or the Mass Dead and Buried without Hope of Resurrection. The latter book was burned on 6 March 1063 by the public executioner, the author exiled, and the bookseller sentenced to a fine of 1000 livres, the loss of his license, and ten years exile. This last work procured his banishment from France, upon which he withdrew to Geneva. He is also the author of several works on philosophical subjects, and against the atheists amongst which may be mentioned, Dispute de la Messe, La Lumière de la raison opposée aux ténèbres de l'impiété, De Existentia Dei, Logica Restituta. His complete works were collected into two volumes, and published soon after his death (Derodonis Opera Omnia, Geneva, 1664 and 1669, 2 vols.; the first volume contains the philosophical, and the second the theological writings). He died at Geneva in 1664. Sources John McClintock, James Strong, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical literature, Volume 2, Harper, 1868, p. 750. Robert Blakey, History of the philosophy of mind: embracing the opinions of all writers on mental science from the earliest period to the present time, Volume 2, Trelawney Wm. Saunders, 1848, pp. 323–5. External links 17th-century French male writers 17th-century Latin-language writers 17th-century French philosophers Calvinist and Reformed philosophers French exiles French Calvinist and Reformed theologians Theologians from the Republic of Geneva 1600s births 1664 deaths 17th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians 17th-century French theologians