, a learned priest of Montpellier, whose father was syndic of the
, a learned priest of Montpellier,
whose father was syndic of the states of Languedoc, which
office he himself held before he became an ecclesiastic,
was born in 1689. He wrote an explanation of the history
of Joseph, 12mo; “Caractere essentiel aux Prophe'tes,
”
12mo; “Lettres sur Tlnterpretation des Saintes Ecritures,
” 12mo; and Explanations of the prophecies of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, 5 vols. 12mo; of the Minor
Prophets, 6 vols. 12mo; of the Revelations, 2 vols. 12 mo.
His attachment to the Jansenists occasioned his being confined six weeks in the Bastille on false suspicions. He died
1763, aged seventy-four.