a French scholar, who was born in 1699, and died at Besancon in 1775, was (from 1728) professor and afterwards dean of the university in that city. He left several works, among them Histoire de l'Etablissement du Christianisme (1764, 4to), taken entirely from pagan and Jewish writers: L'Existence de Dieu Demontree par la Nature (2 vols. 8vo) : - Rponses Critiques:-De Apostolica Eccl. Gallic. Origine (1752, 8vo). See Landon, Eccles. Diet. s.v.; Rose, Gen. Biog. Diet. s.v.