, a barefoot Augustine, and a learned genealogist, whose family
, a barefoot Augustine, and a
learned genealogist, whose family name was Francis Haffard, was born at Blois in 1655, and died at Paris in 1126.
He was preparing a new edition of the History of the Royal
Family of France, and of the great Officers of the Crown;
begun by pere Anselm, the first edition of which appeared
in 1672, 2 vols. 4to, and the second in 1712, improved by
M. de Fourni. But he was suddenly seized by death, leaving
behind him the memory of a laborious scholar; le pere
Simplicion, his associate in this work, published it in 9 vols.
fol. Pere Ange also composed “l'Etat de la France,
” in
5 vols. 12mo, and republished in 1746, in 6 vols. a very
curious and useful work on what may now be termed the
ancient history and constitution of France.