College of France was irretrievably lost. Later Dubois, who aspired to the cardinalate and sought therefore the favour of Rome, made similar accusations against Dupin. In 1718 he entered into a correspondence with William Wake, archbishop of Canterbury, with a view to a union of the English and Gallican churches; being suspected of projecting a change in the dogmas of the church, his papers were seized in February 1719, but nothing incriminating was found. The same zeal for union induced him, during the residence of Peter the Great in France, and at that monarch's request, to draw up a plan for uniting the Greek and Roman churches. He died at Paris on 6 June 1719. Etienne Jordan, a contemporary who saw him, said: in "the morning he would grow pale over books and in the afternoon over cards in the pleasant company of ladies. His library and adjoining apartment were marvellously well kept." Works Du Pin was a voluminous author. Besides the Nouvelle bibliothèque ecclésiastique (58 vols. 8vo with tables), the Remarques by Petit-Didier, and the Critique by R. Simon reprinted in Holland (19 vols. 4to). It was translated into English and annotated by William Wotton in 13 vols. 1692–9. Dupin edited the works of Gerson (Paris, 1703), Optatus of Mileve (Paris, 1700), the Psalms with annotations (1691), and published Notes sur le Pentateuque (1701), an abridgment of L'histoire de l'Eglise (1712), L'histoire profane (1714–1716), L'histoire d'Apollonius de Tyane (1705, under the name of M. de Clairac), a Traité de la puissance ecclésiastique et temporelle, a commentary on the Four Articles of the clergy of France (1707), the Bibliothèque universelle des historiens (1716), numerous works and articles on theology, reprints of former works, etc. Du Pin was no pedant. References Nicéron, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des hommes illustres (Paris, 1727–1745), II, 31 Bossuet, Œuvres (Versailles, 1817), XXX, 475 Reusch, Der Index der verbotenen Bücher (Bonn, 1885), II, 586 Margival, R. Simon in Revue d'histoire et de littérature religieuses (Paris, 1899), IV, 435 Sainte-Beuve, Port-Royal, VI, 129, 174, 365 Mosheim and Maclaine, Histoire ecclésiastique ancienne et moderne (1776), VI, 135 Etienne Jordan, Recueil de littérature, de philosophie et d'histoire (Amsterdam, 1730), 66. Di Mauro, "Gallican Vision, Anglican Perspectives: The Reception of the Works of Louis Ellies Du Pin into England" PhD diss., Catholic University of America, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304033033/http://aladinrc.wrlc.org/bitstream/handle/1961/10248/DiMauro_cua_0043A_10317display.pdf?sequence=1 Notes 1657 births 1719 deaths University of Paris alumni 18th-century French historians