a French theological historian, was born of Protestant parents in 1639 at Rouen. He studied at Saumur and Oxford, was in 1685 appointed pro'fessor of church history at Utrecht, and died Feb. 16, 1706. He published, Lactantii De Mortibus Persecutorum' cum Notis Variorum: — Syntagma Calendariorum: Considerationes Criticce in Jobi cap. 31:31. See Burmann, Trajectum Eruditum; Jocher, Allgem.Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Hand. der theol. Lit. i, 909; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gen., s.v. (B. P.)