La Chapelle, Armand Boisbeleau De

La Chapelle, Armand Boisbeleau De, a French Protestant writer, was born at Ozillac (Saintonge) in 1676. He was a student at the college of Bordeaux when the revocation of the Edict of Nantes obliged him to retire to England, where he was received by his grandfather, pastor of the Walloon Church at London. In 1694 he was ordained, and soon afterwards sent to Ireland. Subsequently he became successively pastor of Wandsworth, in the neighborhood of London, in 1696; of the chapel of the French artillery in that town in 1711; and finally pastor of the Walloon Church of the Hague in 1725. He died August 6.1746. La Chapelle wrote Reflexions au sujet d'un systemepretendu nouveau sur le mystere de la Trinite (Amst. 1729, 8vo):-Examen de la maniere de precher des Protestants Fancais, etc. (Amsterd. 1730, 8vo): — Rponse a Mr. Mainard, ancien chanoine de St. Sernin de Toulouse, au

sujet d'ne conference sur la religion, etc. (La Haye, 1730, 4to): — Entretien au sujet de la Lettre d'un Theologien sur le mystere de la Trinite (La Haye, 1730, 8vo): — Lettre d'un theologien Reforme a ungentilhomme Lutherien (Amst. 1736, 2 vols. 12mo); it is also known under the title Lettres sur l'ouvrage de controverse du P. Schafimacher: Memoires de Pologne, etc. (Lond. 1739,12mo): — Description des ceremonies observes a Romne depuis la mort de Clement XII jusqu'au couronnement de Benoit XIV, son successeur, etc. (Paris, 1741,12mo): — De la Necessite du culte public parmi les Chretiens (La Haye, 1746, 8vo; Frankfort, 1747, 2 vols. 12mo; transl. into Dutch, Amst. 1748, 8vo; into German, Breslau', 1749, 8vo; Lpz. 1769, 8vo). It is a defence of the course of the French Protestants in holding their assemblies du desert in spite of the edicts of the king:- Vie de Beausobre (in Beausobre's Remarques sur le Nouveau Testament, vol. ii). He wrote also in La Bibliotheque Anglaise, ou histoire litteraire de le Grande Bretagne (Amst. 1717-27, 15 vols. 12mo): — Bibliotheque raisonnee des Ouvrage es es Savants de l'Europe (Amst. 1728-53, 52 vols. 12mo): — Nouvelle Bibliotheque, ou histoire litteraire des principaux ecrits qui se publient (La Haye, 1738 sq., 19 vols. 12mo). He also translated into French some works of Dition, Steele, Bentley, and Burnet. See Querard, La France Litterare; Haag, La France Protestante; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale. 28:507. (J. N. P.)