D'Aubigné, Theodore Agrippa, a historian, bred to the military profession; held appointments under Henry IV., on whose assassination he returned to Geneva, where he wrote his “Histoire Universelle,” which had the honour to be burned by the common hangman in Paris; was a satirical writer; grandfather to Mme. de Maintenon (1550‒1630).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
D'Aubigné, Merle * Daubigny, Charles François