, a learned canon of la Chapelle-au Riche, at Dijon, in which city
, a learned canon of la Chapelle-au Riche, at Dijon, in which city he was born, May
1, 1666, was the son of Philip Papillon, advocate to the
parliament. He was a man of literature, and an able critic, and furnished Le Long of the Oratory, Desmolets,
Niceron, and several others among the learned, with a
number of important memoirs and anecdotes. He died
February 23, 1738, at Dijon, aged seventy-two. His principal work is, “La Bibliotheqtie des Auteurs de Bourgogne,
” Dijon,