brationes Clem.
Alex. in epistolas canonicas_ (Codex Lindum, 96, sec. ix.). They were
perhaps intended as a completion of the preceding course.

CLEMENT, FRANCOIS (1714-1793), French historian, was born at Beze, near
Dijon, and was educated at the Jesuit College at Dijon. At the age of
seventeen he entered the society of the Benedictines of Saint Maur, and
worked with such intense application that at the age of twenty-five he
was obliged to take a protracted rest. He now resided in Paris, where he
wrote the 11th and 12th vols. of the _Histoire litteraire de la France_,
and edited (with Dom Brial) the 12th and 13th vols. of the _Recueil des
historiens des Gauls et de la France_. The king appointed him on the
committee which was engaged in publishing charters, diplomas and other
documents connected with French history (see Xavier Charmes, _Le Comite
des travaux historiques et scientifiques_, vol. i., 1886, passim); and
the Academy of Inscriptions chose him as a member (1785). Dom Clement
also revised the _Art de verifier les dates_, edited in 1750 by Dom
Clemencet. Three volumes with the Indexes appeared from 1783 to 1792. He
was engaged in preparing another volume including the period before the
Christian era, when he died suddenly of apoplexy, at the age of
sixty-nine. The work was afterwards brought down from 1770 to 1827 by
Julien de Courcelles and Fortia d'Urban.

CLEMENT, JACQUES (1567-1589), murderer of the French king Henry III.,
was born at Sorbon in the Ardennes, and became a Dominican friar. Civil
war was raging in France, and Clement became an ardent partisan of the
League; his mind appears to have become unhinged by religious
fanaticism, and he talked of exterminating the heretics, and formed a
plan to kill Henry III. His project was encouraged by some of the heads
of the League; he was assured of temporal rewards if he succeeded, and
of eternal bliss if he failed. Having obtained letters for the king, he
left Paris on the 31st of July 1589, and reached St Cloud, the
headquarters of Henry, who was besieging Paris. On the following day he
was admitted to the royal presence, and presenting his letters he told
the king that he had an important and confidential message to deliver.
The attendants then withdrew, and while Henry was reading the letters
Clement mortally wounded him with a dagger which had been concealed
beneath his cloak. The assassin was at once killed by the attendants who
rush