General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . ot much to have fre-quented the court till the reign of Francis I.,who was fond of having learned men abouthim, and conversing with them. He sent Budeon an embassy to Leo X., gave him a place ofmaster of requests, and made him his secre-tary and librarian. He was also chosen to beprovost of the merchants of Paris. It was atthe instigation of Bude, together with that ofdu Bellay, that Francis founded the Royal Col-lege
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . ot much to have fre-quented the court till the reign of Francis I.,who was fond of having learned men abouthim, and conversing with them. He sent Budeon an embassy to Leo X., gave him a place ofmaster of requests, and made him his secre-tary and librarian. He was also chosen to beprovost of the merchants of Paris. It was atthe instigation of Bude, together with that ofdu Bellay, that Francis founded the Royal Col-lege of France, for giving instruction in thelanguages and sciences. A quarrel which hehad with chancellor du Prat, caused him forsome time to appear at court no oftener thanhis office required; but when his friend Poyetbecame chaiicellorj he was seldom absent from ^ I I I > r I ,,, , ,^ t > I » t •-1. t, r,/,, .J^^m ^ ^ I I f t f r I t r r r I I I , r t , , , ,, \^MMMM T . I I TM t. GVILLIELIMP^, ^. ^-CA _/ curmelitn->h^iit>f*t-, BUD ( S49 ) BUD it. During a progress of into Nor-mandy, in 1740, Bude, who nccompanied him,was seized with a fever, and died of it at Parisin the seventy-third year of his age. By hiswill he directed liis funeral to be performed bynight, and in perfect privacy, at his parishchurch, which gave occasion to the report thathe died in tlie sentiments of tlie reformers,though he had explicitly, and with acrimony,condemned them in some of liis had also, indeed, sometimes declaimed withvehemence against the court of Rome, and thecorruptions of the clergy. This suspicion wasstrengthened by his widows removal to Ge-neva, where she openly declared herself a pro-testant, as did also tMo of his sons. The cha-racter of Bude is fair and honourable; yetBayle says of him, that he made himself morefeared than beloved in the republic of letters,and that in the dispute witli Erasmus he show-ed himself the least moderat
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