hing and sent into retirement at the convent of Corbara in Corsica.
After eighteen months he emerged, and travelled in Germany, publishing
an interesting work upon that country, entitled _Les Allemands_ (English
translation by R. Ledos de Beaufort, London, 1884). On his return to
France in 1890 he produced his best known work, _Jesus-Christ_ (2 vols.,
Paris), for which he had qualified himself by travel in the Holy Land.
In the same year he became director of the College Albert-le-Grand at
Arcueil, and founded three auxiliary institutions, Ecole Lacordaire,
Ecole Laplace and Ecole St Dominique. He wrote, in addition, several
works on educational questions, and augmented his fame as an eloquent
preacher by discourses preached during Lent and Advent. He died at
Toulouse on the 13th of March 1900.

See the biographies by J. de Romano (1891), and A. de Coulanges
(Paris, 1900); and especially the work of Stanislas Reynaud, entitled
_Le Pere Didon, sa vie et son oeuvre_ (Paris, 1904).

DIDOT, the name of a family of learned French printers and publishers.
FRANCOIS DIDOT (1689-1757), founder of the family, was born at Paris. He
began business as a bookseller and printer in 1713, and among his
undertakings was a collection of the travels of his friend the Abbe
Prevost, in twenty volumes (1747). It was remarkable for its
typographical perfection, and was adorned with many engravings and maps.
FRANCOIS AMBROISE DIDOT (1730-1804), son of Francois, made important
improvements in type-founding, and was the first to attempt printing on
vellum paper. Among the works which he published was the famous
collection of French classics prepared by order of Louis XVI. for the
education of the Dauphin, and the folio edition of _L'Art de verifier
les dates_. PIERRE FRANCOIS DIDOT (1732-1795), his brother, devoted much
attention to the art of type-founding and to paper-making. Among the
works which issued from his press was an edition in folio of the
_Imitatio Christi_ (1788). HENRI DIDOT (1765-1852), son of Pierre
Francois, is celebrated for his "microscopic" editions of various
standard works, for which he engraved the type when nearly seventy years
of age. He was also the engraver of the _assignats_ issued by the
Constituent and Legislative Assemblies and the Convention. DIDOT
SAINT-LEGER, second son of Pierre Francois, was the inventor of the
paper-making machine known in England as the Didot machine. PIERRE DIDOT
(1760-1853), e