sentences:  At that time, to say of any work "c'est de Godeau" was to stamp it with the seal of approval.Perhaps best known among the works of his early days is his "Discours sur les œuvres de Malherbe" (1629), which shows some critical power and is valuable for the history of the French prose of the seventeenth century.In 1636, he was named Bishop of Grasse by Richelieu, to whom he had dedicated his first religious composition, a poetical paraphrase of the Psalm "Benedicite omnia opera Domini".