So the man, who was known to have been the actual writer of the Advocate's _Justification_, continued to live in straitened circumstances at Paris, until Oxenstierna appointed him Swedish ambassador at the French court.

This post he held for eleven years.

Of his extraordinary ability, and of the variety and range of his knowledge, it is not possible to speak without seeming exaggeration.

Grotius was in his own time styled "the wonder of the world"; he certainly stands intellectually as one of the very foremost men the Dutch race has produced.

Scholar, jurist, theologian, philosopher, historian, poet, diplomatist, letter-writer, he excelled in almost every branch of knowledge and made himself a master of whatever subject he took in hand.