Beausobre, Isaac, a Huguenot divine, born at Poitou; fled to Holland on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, settled in Berlin, and became a notability in high quarters there; attracted the notice of the young Frederick, the Great that was to be, who sought introduction to him, and the young Frederick “got good conversation out of him”; author of a “History of Manichæism,” praised by Gibbon, and of other books famous in their day, a translation of the New Testament for one (1659‒1738).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Beaurepaire * Beautiful Parricide