, an useful French biographer, was born at Rouen, Sept. 22, 1644,
, an useful French biographer, was
born at Rouen, Sept. 22, 1644, and entered among the
Dominicans in 1660, whose order he has celebrated to
posterity by writing the lives of their authors, under the
title “Scriptores ordinis Praedicatorum recensiti, notisque
historiciset criticis illustrati,
” Paris, 1719 1721, 2 vols.
fol. It is a work of great accuracy, as he inserted nothing
without referring to good authority, and he is very correct
in the bibliographical part. Quetif, also a Dominican,
who died in 1698, had begun this work, but had made so
little progress, that the whole merit may be ascribed to
father Echard, who died at Paris, March 15, 1724.