a French philosopher and theologian, was born in 1624 at Vire, in Normandy In 1663 he was chancellor at Bayetux, in 1666 secretary of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, and died August 6, 1706. He published, Biblia Latina Vulg. etc. (Paris, 1706 fol.): — Theologia Speculativa et Practica (1691): — Theologiae Clericorum Seminariis Accommodates Summarium (1694, 5 volumes). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:60, 291; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)