DÉODAT, Marie de BASLY. - French Franciscan theologian, one of the restorers of the Scotist school, b. at Basly in Bessin (Calvados) on 11 Oct. 1862, d. at Le Havre on 14 July 1937. He entered the religious life in 1870, devoted himself to the apostolate and held various offices in the Order; in 1897 he founded a convent at Le Havre, where he resided for 40 years and carried out his cultural activity. In 1903 he founded the periodical *La bonne parole*, for the exposition and defence of Franciscan Scholastic thought.
He wrote: *Grandes thèses catholiques*, I: *Le Sacré Cœur* (Paris-Lille 1900); II: *Pourquoi Jésus Christ*? (ibid. 1903); *Capitalia opera Scoti* (12 vols., of which two were published, Le Havre 1908 and 1911); *Scotus docem* (Paris-Le Havre 1934); *La Christifade française* (2 vols., Paris 1927). Some criticisms levelled at this work, relating to the question of the *Assumptus Homo*, led the author to a series of notable Christological studies, published in *La France franciscaine* and in *Etudes franciscaines*. Other minor articles appeared in *La bonne parole*, which he edited until 1912.