a French Roman Catholic theologian, was born in Paris, March 16, 1635. In 1662 he took his degree as doctor of theology, was in 1671 dean and grand-vicar at Sens, in 1694 canon at SainteChapelle and dean of the Sorbonne, and died Aug. 1, 1716. He published, De Tactibus Impudicis (Paris, 1695): — Historia Flagellantium (ibid. 1700): — De Re Vestiana Hominis Sacri (Amsterdam, 1704), and other treatises. See Du Pin, Bibl. Ecclesialstique du dix-septieme Siecle, torn. v; Niceron, Memoires, xii; Lichtenberger, Encyclopedie des Sciences Religieuses, s.v.; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. i, 456, 457 603, 612, 648, 918; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B. P.)