C CUNYB/Clarke December, :
AFabulous World (–) Jean Gillot, a French Protestant refugee in the United Provinces. In later
years, this pattern of having a few close personal friends and a wide cir-
cleofcorrespondents supported the French philosopher in his exile in
the United Provinces. With the addition of powerful patrons, such as
Huygens and various French ambassadors, he acquired the necessary pro-
tection against those among his Calvinist hosts who considered him as
unorthodox as Galileo appeared to the Roman cardinals.