, a French editor, distinguished among the literati of his time,
, a French editor, distinguished
among the literati of his time, was born at Metz in 1658.
He was trained to the law, and followed the bar, till the
reformed were driven out of France, by the revocation of
the edict of Nantz. In 1701 he settled at Berlin became
a member of the academy of sciences and died there in
1735. He was regarded as a very learned person, yet is
distinguished as an editor rather than an author. His peculiar taste for the ancient French writers, led him to give
new editions of the Menippean Satires, of the works of
Rabelais, of the Apology for Herodotus, by Henry Stephens, &c. all accompanied with remarks of his own. He
held a correspondence with Bayle, whom he furnished
with many particulars for his Dictionary, and whose
attachment to expatiating on indelicate passages, notes, &c.
he too closely copied. After his death was published a
“Ducatiana,
” at Amsterdam,