, a native of Abscons in Ostrevant, was a regular cauon in the abbey
, a native of Abscons in Ostrevant, was a regular cauon in the abbey of St. Aubert at
Cambray, but retired into Holland with a lady by whom he
had several children, according to Foppen, in his Bibl.
Belgica, and died there at an advanced age, about 1670.
He maintained himself by drawing up genealogies, which
are in his “Histoire de Cambray et du Cambresis,
” Leyden, 1664, 2 vols, 4to, a work which his countrymen say
must not be depended upon too much. There is only one
edition of this book, but some have the titles of 1668. In
the copies thus dated, is a short supplement, which continues the third part of the book to page 1110. instead of
1096, where it originally ended. There is also a plan of
the estates of Cambresis, and some separate genealogies,
the expence of which was defrayed by the families.