BIBLIOGRAPHY.--_Notre Colonie de Dahomey_, by G. François (Paris, 1906), and _Le Dahomey_ (1909), an official publication, deal with topography, ethnography and economics; L. Brunet and L. Giethlen, _Dahomey et dépendances_ (Paris, 1900); Édouard Foà, _Le Dahomey_ (Paris, 1895). Religion, laws and language are specially dealt with in _Ewe-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast_, by A. B. Ellis (London, 1890), and in _La Côte des Esclaves et le Dahomey_, by P. Bouche (Paris, 1885). Much historical matter, with particular notices of the Amazons and the "Customs," is contained in _A Mission to Gelele_, by Sir R. Burton (London, 1864). The story of the French conquest is told in _Campagne du Dahomey_, by Jules Poirier (Paris, 1895). The standard authority on the early history is _The History of Dahomey_, by Archibald Dalzel (sometime governor of the English fort at Whydah) (London, 1793). The annual _Reports_ issued by the British, Foreign, and French Colonial Offices may be consulted, and the _Bibliographie raisonnée des ouvrages concernant le Dahomey_, by A. Pawlowski (Paris, 1895), is a useful guide to the literature of the country to that date. A _Carte du Dahomey_, by A. Meunier, (3 sheets, scale 1:500,000), was published in Paris, 1907.
DAILLÉ (DALLAEUS), JEAN (1594-1670), French Protestant divine, was born at Châtellerault and educated at Poitiers and Saumur. From 1612 to 1621 he was tutor to two of the grandsons of Philippe de Mornay, seigneur du Plessis Marly. Ordained to the ministry in 1623, he was for some time private chaplain to Du Plessis Mornay, whose memoirs he subsequently wrote. In 1625 Daillé was appointed minister of the church of Saumur, and in 1626 was chosen by the Paris consistory to be minister of the church of Charenton. Of his works, which are principally controversial, the best known is the treatise _Du vrai emploi des Pères_ (1631), translated into English by Thomas Smith under the title _A Treatise concerning the right use of the Fathers_ (1651). The work attacks those who made the authority of the Fathers conclusive on matters of faith and practice. Daillé contends that the text of the Fathers is often corrupt, and that even when it is correct their reasoning is often illogical. In his _Sermons_ on the Philippians and Colossians, Daillé vindicated his claim to rank as a great preacher as well as an able controversialist. He was president of the last national synod held in France, which met at Loudun in 1659 (H. M. Baird, _The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes_, 1895, i. pp. 412 ff.), when, as in the _Apologie des Synodes d'Alençon et de Charenton_ (1655), he defended the universalism of Moses Amyraut. He wrote also _Apologie pour les Églises Réformées_ and _La Foy fondée sur les Saintes Écritures_. His life was written by his son Adrien, who retired to Zürich at the revocation of the edict of Nantes.