a French ecclesiastic, was born in 1541 at Vaux-le-Monclot and entered the Order of St. Ignatius at the age of eighteen. He taught, the humanities in various colleges, especially at Lyons and Dole, where he filled the office of rector. In 1591 he was sent to occupy the chair of rhetoric and Greek at Tournon, and he died there March 10, 1610, leaving a number of educational works, for which see the Biographie Universelle, s.v.