, a doctor and librarian of the Sorbonne, was born at Pontoise in
, a doctor and librarian of the
Sorbonne, was born at Pontoise in the isle of France in
1636, of poor parents. One of his uncles, a clergyman of
Veaux in the diocese of Rouen, undertook his education,
and afterwards sent him to Paris, where he took his degrees
in divinity, and he was received into the house and society
of the Sorbonne in 1658, where he was equally admired
for learning, piety, and charity, often stripping himself to
clothe the poor, and even selling his books to relieve them,
which, all book-collectors will agree, was no small stretch of
benevolence. Having been appointed librarian to the Sorbonne, his studies in that collection produced a valuable
work, well known to bibliographers, entitled “Origine de
I'lmprimerie de Paris, dissertation historique et critique,
”
Paris, Grand Canon de l'Eglise Grecque,
” written by Andrew of
Jerusalem, archbishop of Candy, Paris, 1699, 12mo. He
also published in 1664, a Latin dissertation on the council
of Chalcedon, on formularies of faith, and had some hand
in the catalogue of prohibited books which appeared in
1685. Chevillier died Sept. 8, 1700.